Eve Online and Dust 514 are offline

Severe DDoS attack to blame as games have been offline since yesterday.

CCP Games have taken their connected online games Eve Online and Dust 514 offline as a result of a severe and sustained DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against their Tranquility server cluster (that hosts both games). The company issued the following statement on Facebook:

"At 02:05 GMT June 2nd, CCP became aware of a significant and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the Tranquility cluster (which houses EVE Online and DUST 514) and web servers.

Our policy in such cases is to mobilize a taskforce of internal and external experts to evaluate the situation. At 03:07 GMT, that group concluded that our best course of action was to go completely offline while we put in place mitigation plans.

While we initially reopened EVE Online and DUST 514, we have since re-evaluated. With the highest sense of precaution we have taken Tranquility and associated websites back down for further investigation and an exhaustive scan of our entire infrastructure. We will update you more frequently via our Twitter feed (www.twitter.com/eveonline), however, an extended service interruption of several hours is expected as this process should not be rushed."

The last few tweets are hopeful, but non-committal as far as a timeline for when the servers will be back online. Hopefully, it won't be long now. Eve Online recently celebrated ten years and is currently home to 500,000 players, while the connected shooter experience Dust 514 launched on PSN last month.

Update (11:42):

Eve Online and Dust 514 are now back online. For more head over to the official community site.