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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 t...
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