Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms

Impressive hack, if that's what it turns out to be. I would guess that Blizzard has appropriate backups though..

WoW forums appears to be down too..

I am... very impressed. This is some pretty bad news for the current king of MMOs. I wonder if someone finally stole a GM's account or if this is a live hack. I'm more inclined to believe someone just made off with an account but hey crazier hacks have happened.

I personally dont think it was a hack. I think it more likely a warcraft developer did something wrong and not an external hack.

Don't really need backups for that, death is not permanent. No one's going to lose anything but time and patience.

Edit to add: Players who get killed by this aren't going to lose anything, which is what the link was talking about, but I guess its letting people who are in on it exploit content too - some of them may be rolled back, banned, or otherwise dealt with other than just the thing getting fixed, whatever it is.

apparently it's a client side hack for "WoW-plus", here's the ringleader on his own forums:

http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-w...

this isn't the first time Blizzard have messed up like this: they originally set the "Game Master" access level by a bit transmitted client side, and the same socket bit twiddling could be used to get into their private alpha servers...