14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday we reported that the source code of the popular MMO game Eve Online was leaked to a torrent website, following one user's attempt to prove to the developers at CCP that the security of the game itself is not good enough. Today, a CCP rep talked about the problem and explained why this leak can not affect the safety of the players (or their financial data), nor influence the game negatively. Let's see...
In an e-mail sent to website Next Generation, a CCP rep said that the whole situation, as presented in news stories, was "inaccurate and untrue" and "grossly blown out of proportion" - actually, the developers consider the leak a "non-issue"! That's really nice, isn't it? Probably every developer in the world would go mad if a source code of one of its games would be leaked and available for everybody to download - at least for the reason that a similar game could pop up and steal at least some of the users. But not CCP - the company feels safe and considers that nothing bad has happened.
"Access to the source code for the EVE client exposes no security vulnerabilities, has no privacy protection issues, and poses no threat to our customers billing information," a statement on EVE Online's official website reads. "The server-side interface used by the client is carefully protected to ensure that no abusive or unwanted information is transmitted to or from the EVE system." The developer adds that the leak is not a security risk to CCP or its customers in any way.
The company has also tried to address the "rumors" of a banning spree that takes place on the official boards, with every person that talks about the leak being banned. The announcement on the website says that all this is fake news, also - the company is only removing posts who violate the company's EULA: "We consider any alterations of the client software, including decompilation, or discussions thereof, to represent such a violation," the post says. Well... the people who claim they were banned from the website have a bit different story.
In the end, the statement says, "Nothing the EVE client can do can affect the game state, a manipulated EVE client cannot affect the server, no advantageous or disadvantageous information can be transmitted to other EVE users by altering the EVE client." So the client is out, but we'll just act like nothing happened. Game on, they say!