Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-18653705-20140131001339

The TFL BLog didn't have a lot of updates during the raid - normally the post boss releases. However they did post this (which may have been missed by some with free time being glued to the event):

"Hello TRANSFORMERS Legends players,

A few weeks ago a small team of dedicated players provided us with a package containing evidence which suggested that another small team of players might have been utilizing a newly discovered hack in TFL.

This immediately prompted the launch of an investigation, which had been ongoing until now.

During our investigation we observed a copious assortment of hypotheses regarding who had been hacking, what the hacks allowed players to achieve, and the volume of players hacking, pop up in rapid succession. Most of these ideas blew the entire situation far out of proportion, and now that our investigation has come to a close, we wanted to take the time to share our findings with the community in the hopes that our discoveries will help people form their opinions based upon facts.

During our investigation we found that, while this small ring of players attempted many different methods of exploitation, only one of these methods involved actually altering our code, and only one of these methods actually yielded results.

The hack that got by our systems allowed these players to lock in a certain tier of the tiered Space Bridges. While this hack did not bypass any purchasing, it did allow these players to obtain an unfair advantage by repeatedly purchasing the same tier within the tiered Space Bridge. Out of the accused, the number of players who had actually utilized this hack was quite low, less than a dozen players in total. Many more were accused due to their affiliation with these guilty players, but the proof is in the pudding.

Moving forward, we have worked hard on a fix that we’ll be rolling out soon that prevents altered files being used by the game. It involves data validation upon logging into the game and other key moments when using the application. When a file is checked and deemed invalid the game forces a re-download of any of the altered files erasing any changes made by the hacker.

The guilty parties uncovered in our investigation will have their main accounts permanently banned.

We are sorry that it’s taken us a few weeks to really hammer this whole thing out, but we wanted to make sure that things were done right.

Roll out, The Team" 