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Reposted from the thread on /r/runescape for visibility:
Hello everyone,
Just wanted to hop in and clarify what happened over the weekend in question, and where we are now.
We identified some worlds going down overnight between Friday and Saturday as the result of a sustained attack on said worlds; we took immediate action across multiple vectors within 24 hours in order to ensure that they didn't go down again, negating the possibility of the dupe. We subsequently added in further preventative measures in the Monday game update of June 1st (hence why the update was later than usual) and we already have further protective steps sitting with QA for implementation in the future.
As a direct result of the investigation so far, we've removed billions of GP from the game, on top of the trillions already removed in the past year from other real-world trading offences - and further investigations are still taking place. We believe the long-term impact to the economy is minimal, but will examine that further.
We will be looking to better align security processes across our titles to ensure continuity, and would like to apologise to anyone who was impacted over the weekend with the server outages.
Finally, let's talk about communication. We totally understand where you're coming from on this. When it comes to security issues that do not directly impact player account security, it's our policy to not provide a stage for such actions at any time. We don't want to exacerbate an issue by putting a spotlight on it, nor do we want to entice attention-seeking activities for notoriety. The tough part about this is approach is the net result to the rest of you in terms of what we say. Frankly, it's a very fine line to walk - we may not quite be right in the ideal middle yet, and we'll think about it more following this, for sure.