Hello, FR Community -
It has come to our attention that bad actors that have gained access to hacked passwords lists (gained from other sites/sources) are actively using them to try and gain access to older Flight Rising accounts (likely to try and offload valuable items). It is common for raids like this to take advantage of the fact that individuals use the same password across a wide group of sites or services, and the intruders are employing that strategy here. We want to be clear: we have no reason to believe that the website's security itself is under threat, nor have they done any damage that cannot be mostly amended.
Yesterday, we announced that we would be increasing security measures to help prevent intrusions like this. While development around these measures has been in progress for several months, obviously there is a necessity to bump the priority on them and we will be deploying them as soon as they are thoroughly tested.
For now, we have made the decision to place Flight Rising into an unscheduled maintenance mode primarily to allow our team time to rest, as this has been a considerable resource drain on as small a group as ours. In keeping with our anti-crunch philosophy, we have to give those members time for rejuvenation and mental health reasons. We don't have a planned time for when the site will reopen, but at this time, we anticipate that it won't be more than a day.
The timing isn't great, we understand, as Night of the Nocturne is still running. The team will, of course, be extending this event to compensate for the downtime, and we'll have more information on that when we come back out of maintenance.
As we mentioned in our messaging yesterday, we urge everyone to take stock of the email address they have attached to their Flight Rising account. When access is restored to the site, please take the time to update your email address if necessary, and change your password to something complex that you do not use for other sites or services. That is the best thing you can do for yourself and for your community as a whole.
We appreciate everyone's understanding while think of the wellbeing of our team and use tonight to recharge. We'll provide you updates as often we can.
Your Flight Rising Founders,
Undel, Akiri, and Xhaztol
It has come to our attention that bad actors that have gained access to hacked passwords lists (gained from other sites/sources) are actively using them to try and gain access to older Flight Rising accounts (likely to try and offload valuable items). It is common for raids like this to take advantage of the fact that individuals use the same password across a wide group of sites or services, and the intruders are employing that strategy here. We want to be clear: we have no reason to believe that the website's security itself is under threat, nor have they done any damage that cannot be mostly amended.
Yesterday, we announced that we would be increasing security measures to help prevent intrusions like this. While development around these measures has been in progress for several months, obviously there is a necessity to bump the priority on them and we will be deploying them as soon as they are thoroughly tested.
For now, we have made the decision to place Flight Rising into an unscheduled maintenance mode primarily to allow our team time to rest, as this has been a considerable resource drain on as small a group as ours. In keeping with our anti-crunch philosophy, we have to give those members time for rejuvenation and mental health reasons. We don't have a planned time for when the site will reopen, but at this time, we anticipate that it won't be more than a day.
The timing isn't great, we understand, as Night of the Nocturne is still running. The team will, of course, be extending this event to compensate for the downtime, and we'll have more information on that when we come back out of maintenance.
As we mentioned in our messaging yesterday, we urge everyone to take stock of the email address they have attached to their Flight Rising account. When access is restored to the site, please take the time to update your email address if necessary, and change your password to something complex that you do not use for other sites or services. That is the best thing you can do for yourself and for your community as a whole.
We appreciate everyone's understanding while think of the wellbeing of our team and use tonight to recharge. We'll provide you updates as often we can.
Your Flight Rising Founders,
Undel, Akiri, and Xhaztol
Flight Rising Developer
Project Management | Engineering Team Cheerleader | UI Designer
Project Management | Engineering Team Cheerleader | UI Designer