14 DAY TRIAL // Developer Bohemia Interactive's servers have apparently been hacked, and there is a pretty big possibility that the DayZ source code has been stolen.
What this means for the adopters of the massively successful Steam Early Access first-person survival shooter is that there is likely going to be an influx of hackers in the near future.
For Czech video game maker Bohemia Interactive, this is a very unfortunate event, as their property has apparently been swiped from their servers via SQL injection.
The info comes from Rely on Horror, revealing that a thread on game hacking forum Unknown Cheats has suggested that a user gained access to Bohemia Interactive's servers, serving some images showing alleged source code files as proof.
The forum thread has since been taken down, but as is the case with everything on the Internet, the shenanigans have already been immortalized on Reddit.
The developer has confirmed that they have detected an attack on some of its servers, and that they are currently investigating the nature and extent of the intrusion. Thankfully, no user or game data has been compromised, which means that the development process isn't affected in any way and is continuing right on track, so at least there's a bright side to all of this.
Bohemia hasn't confirmed that the source code was stolen, but a dev tool for debugging the DayZ executable has been released by users of the hacking forums, opening the possibility of nasty shenanigans and the bending of the virtual laws of the post-apocalyptic universe.
However, this could result in a bunch of exploits and hacking popping up in DayZ, which will make the entire experience even more grueling, since the game already is infested with people robbing and killing each other legitimately. Oh, and the zombies.
On the other hand, Linux's source code has been "leaked" for more than 20 years, and that has only served to make the platform stronger. Hopefully whatever harm comes from this in the form of publicly exposed exploits will help the developers patch them up faster.
DayZ is currently on Steam in Early Access, to be launched as a standalone game. The whole thing began back in 2009, with a mod created for Bohemia Interactive's Arma 2, and since then has grown so much that it has sold over 2 million copies so far, in spite of the fact that it is a pretty barebones experience that the developers don't recommend buying yet.