We got hacked about a month ago (don't worry, we don't store any credit
card data on our server), by a real idiot. I didn't want to post about
it before because I didn't want to alert him to how seriously we were
taking this. He had gone onto Mudconnector, searched for the biggest
MUDs, and decided to hack us. Unfortunately for him, we take this sort
of thing extremely seriously, and with the help of our ISP as well as
Mudconnector, we tracked him down, and the FBI recently seized his
computer equipment after obtaining a federal warrant. The case is
on-going and he's going to be prosecuted under the economic terrorism
laws, as unfortunately for him, we're not a not-for-profit MUD.

In reponse to this, we're spending $3000 in security software and, if
the fellow happens to get off (God knows how. We got a taped confession
for the FBI after tricking him into bragging about it.) we'll be happy
to spend a few thousand to cripple him or something. Nothing's too good
for someone trying to hack us! (You never want to skimp when hiring
enforcers I've found. There's nothing worse than getting a cut-rate
enforcer named Lenny to go out and hospitalize someone and find out that
all he managed to do was sprain the guy's thumb.)

Penned by my hand on the 10th of Scarlatan, in the year 279 AF.