DAoC Catacombs just posted the "confession" of Laroma, one of the hackers that took part in last month's crippling enterprise-wide attack on the European servers. Here's a snip:
This is about when things started to go bad (in my point of view). 18th of August around noon, my accounts (2) were terminated. This is about 3 weeks after it all started. I submit a ticket to RightNow asking why I had been banned, as I hadn't got any notice about it. Obviously I knew why I had been banned, but I wanted to hear it from GOA, but as you might have guessed, all I got was a typical standard form answere saying "You account has been banned for multiple illegal activities".
Now, I can't help but imagine that Laroma's contact for the hacking was either an employee, or someone very adept at Dumpster-Diving. Because GOA and Mythic have been very tight-lipped about this, it would lead me to conclude that this crime, like so many corporate crimes, was an inside job.
If that was the case, GOA seems to have been extremely generous with Laroma and his activities. I don't know that I would have counseled them to allow him back in the game.
