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Hello, Over the past couple of days, a number of users have been receiving malware warnings for visiting Egg Cave. On Monday, March 7, our data center's web-based support center was compromised. Our data center's support center contained a number of unencrypted root passwords to servers that they manage. Egg Cave was one of them. The hacker proceeded to log in to Egg Cave's server and modify some system files that dynamically injected malicious javascript tags into some of our pages. This code, at random times (not to be too suspicious), initiated malware downloads on users' computers. Since this discovery, our data center has erased their entire support center's database (including the root passwords to servers) and released patches to all of their servers, fixing the affected system files. Egg Cave has been cleared of all "malware blacklists" at Google, Firefox, Opera, and many others. Egg Cave is malware free. If you have visited Egg Cave between March 7 through March 10, it is strongly recommended that you change your Egg Cave password immediately. If you visited Egg Cave between March 7 through March 10, do not assume that your computer has been infected with malware. You know that your computer has been infected if you physically saw a download window pop up on your computer and you couldn't stop it. If you received browser warnings or antivirus warnings from visiting TDN, there is a high chance that these programs caught the malware before it was ever able to download or install. In general, you can't get malware from simply loading a page; the program has to download and execute, which you would be able to see. Lastly: based on the evidence we have, the hacker was not an Egg Cave player or interested in Egg Cave accounts. Multiple servers in our data center were affected by this; each server hosted diverse types of web sites. A NOTE TO CASH SHOP PARK SUPPORTERS: If you have made any purchase from the Cash Shop Park, your financial information is safe because we do not store it (nor will we ever). Only Paypal does. A NOTE ABOUT UNHAPPY EGGS: All creatures on Egg Cave are now 100% happy. We realize some users have not been able to access Egg Cave to feed their eggs because of the security issues. A NOTE ABOUT DEAD EGGS: If any of your creatures have died because of these issues, please submit in a ticket and we will restore your creature.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused. Our server is now stable and we have taken extra steps to apply even stricter security settings to our server and to Egg Cave. We are happy to answer any questions you might have; please Contact Us if you'd like.
mlpnko159 • 11 Mar 2011, 10:03 AM
FIRST COMMENT
Ian • 11 Mar 2011, 10:06 AM
in other words: THIS WASN'T OUR FAULT! 😋
deu • 11 Mar 2011, 10:06 AM
WOW, I'm going to read it now 😊
merlin7576 • 11 Mar 2011, 10:10 AM
hi people
harrypotter123698 • 11 Mar 2011, 10:13 AM
Yay! It's fixed! Now it's the countdown till St. Patricks day eggs! 😃
merlin7576 • 11 Mar 2011, 10:17 AM
im bored
harrypotter123698 • 11 Mar 2011, 10:18 AM
I'm bored too. I can't wait for St patricks day eggs!😃
deu • 11 Mar 2011, 10:22 AM
When is St Patrick's day? We don't celebrate it in Belgium ☹️
Orderedchaos • 11 Mar 2011, 10:23 AM
Hooray everything has been fixed. Dangit, I dislike thinking up and changing my password. *shuffles off to go change it*
harrypotter123698 • 11 Mar 2011, 10:26 AM
@deu St Patricks day is on march 17th 😊
Orderedchaos • 11 Mar 2011, 10:26 AM
@deu March 17th 😊
sprite • 11 Mar 2011, 10:28 AM
Site is moving really slow for me. Any one else? I am on Mozilla Firefox. Have a ton of feedbacks to do..eeks.
deu • 11 Mar 2011, 10:33 AM
@harrypotter123698 @orderedchaos Thanks 😃 @luvmykids244 Yes, Egg Cave is slow ☹️
dino_girl88 • 11 Mar 2011, 10:37 AM
Yay! Eggcave is back😊 All my creatures are okay😃
redfire77 • 11 Mar 2011, 10:43 AM
GO IAN! ian is awesome.
redfire77 • 11 Mar 2011, 10:44 AM
yay! i just got 2 goldentrees from ta
Zac • 11 Mar 2011, 10:46 AM
Thanks for the update. 😸 I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say that we appreciate your efforts and we're glad Egg Cave is back! 😊
mich • 11 Mar 2011, 11:07 AM
finnaly!! egg cave is again accesablee!
deu • 11 Mar 2011, 11:10 AM
Who has a spritemice UFT? I can give you a nogar, wisnaker and a colatay? (or something else) 😃
inkdweller • 11 Mar 2011, 11:52 AM
WHOOT! ;u;
sparklefox • 11 Mar 2011, 12:23 PM
Yay!
ginna3525 • 11 Mar 2011, 12:57 PM
good afternoon, thanks god is safe now, i was having problem
sparklefox • 11 Mar 2011, 1:25 PM
*Drops cake on blog* Ooops... Well, who cares? It's dead anyway...
muppet • 11 Mar 2011, 1:30 PM
site is still kinda slow on firefox but more important everyone should run a boot scan with their antivirus...I had a trojan on my comp☹️
my virus scan usually picks these up b4 they get into my comp☹️ just thought I should let everyone know
joy • 11 Mar 2011, 2:07 PM
Hooray for Ian and Egg Cave! 😃 Glad everything got straightened out and Egg Cave is safe once again. ❤️
asa • 11 Mar 2011, 2:08 PM
*gasp* A HACKER!!! MEHH!!!!
asa • 11 Mar 2011, 2:09 PM
but yay anyway. my parents were getting worried that my computer would get infected and stuff. 😋 I'M SO GLAD ITS FIXED!!!
shiver • 11 Mar 2011, 2:22 PM
Yay😃 hia to everyone😊
turkishdelight • 11 Mar 2011, 2:41 PM
Thank goodness the problem was resolved. Thank you very much for the explanation, Ian.
turkishdelight • 11 Mar 2011, 2:42 PM
My computer has been having troubles, but it has been going on since before this malware incident, so I don't think it is the cause.
Meteoroid • 11 Mar 2011, 2:43 PM
Wow, people still do "FIRST", especially on a blog post such as this. Anyway, glad the site is fixed.
bribri1114845 • 11 Mar 2011, 2:54 PM
*gleefully opens up eggcave and laughs like a madman* I CAN ACCESS EGGCAVE NOW!!!!! *spasm*
gemstone • 11 Mar 2011, 2:56 PM
OH MY GOSH, I'M GOING TO HAVE ZOMBIE CREATURES! 😃
fuzzydragon • 11 Mar 2011, 3:02 PM
omg 😊
evilyowling • 11 Mar 2011, 3:19 PM
luckily none of my creatures died when i returned only one wasn't in tims
thepells4 • 11 Mar 2011, 3:22 PM
Yay, we're back! 😃
nvr4evr1 • 11 Mar 2011, 3:24 PM
Thank god! 😃
haruhi78 • 11 Mar 2011, 3:34 PM
YAY it's fixed 😃 XD
cubexline • 11 Mar 2011, 3:49 PM
yay eggcave loves firefox again ❤️
Ian • 11 Mar 2011, 3:54 PM
egg cave is loading a bit slowly right now... we're working on this! thanks 😃
Orderedchaos • 11 Mar 2011, 3:58 PM
I noticed that. I kinda assumed it was from everyone flooding back and the servers struggling to keep up.
bribri1114845 • 11 Mar 2011, 4:25 PM
Ian you are so awesometastic ~❤️ Eggcave forever! *raises fist*
lizardfeather • 11 Mar 2011, 4:26 PM
Glad it's fixed 😊 For the history books: http://tinypic.com/r/34qjjic/7
omeletteater5 • 11 Mar 2011, 4:32 PM
Thanks Ian! Was a bit scared there for a couple days..I thought I would never be able to visit eggcave again! ☹️ Glad to hear all's well!
ptheq • 11 Mar 2011, 4:37 PM
50th
dragonkeeper • 11 Mar 2011, 4:40 PM
Thank goodness its over I thought there was something rong with my computer when everything was running slow
turkishdelight • 11 Mar 2011, 4:46 PM
Good afternoon, Egg Cave. The site seems to be loading fine for me, hardly any lag! 😊
whitefall • 11 Mar 2011, 5:28 PM
Thanks Ian! 😃 All the dying creatures of the users who have quit are now restored, and will survive another few weeks without dying. 😊
ninja • 11 Mar 2011, 5:31 PM
@Ian It's so nice that you can restore dead creatures! I was panicking when Eggcave wouldn't load a few days ago x.x
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