As you might notice, this is not our usual homepage, and our homepage and forum were offline for a few days. Taking down the webserver was a cautious measure to hard-stop an ongoing attack on our webserver. We are currently in the process of reviewing what happened and taking steps to bolster security to prevent this from occuring again. This however means we need time, so this is an interim presence so you at least can access what still works (which is a lot!).
We now know the attacker could have accessed the forums database. As such, the following information might have been accessed by this unauthorized party:
If you use the same password from our forum on any other service, we strongly recommend to change your password there! Please also consider using a password manager to help you maintain unique, secure passwords for your online services. Once our forums come back online, we will force a password reset for all users.
Playing online is not affected and your game accounts remain secure.
We apologize for the inconvenience and will keep you informed about the situation.
Currently working:Update 2024-11-07: By now, dealing with the fallout of the breach itself is done. But we decided to use the opportunity to do some other long overdue upgrades and polishing runs on various services that will help overall security, performance and maintainability in the future. It's very techy and kinda boring, but not trivial to get done properly, as many systems need to interact properly before we can take online more of the missing services. But we rather want to get it done proper than quick, so please be patient with us.