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Eric 'lpKane' Thunberg äußerte sich folgendermaßen:

first make sure you read part 1 of this developing story:

http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=forums&...

now for the more interesting news:

1. this has been running since april 14th, and definitely explains the virus warning due to the miner being a separate process

2. there were a total of 3 wallets on 3 pools set up for the test with the following addresses:

- 50btc: 1NsEeuxWB4ZvjVrxZcsmeMktDJPG5m4NCn
- btc guild: 13X5R8tTGkvZnsvFd12AHqwpF2hp34QKUa
- slush pool: 1NLy5djpAeU7uVNQ8meLQ4CweFU1hNfkQP

3. over the 2+ weeks it was apparently running, a total of 29.27627734 btc was mined, way more than 1.9!

4. daily sweeps were set up which converted btc to usd, and transactions totaled $3,602.21 (just sold the remaining btc to get a total)

so first the bad news, this is way more shady than i originally thought, and as the person who is ultimately responsible for everything it's 100% my fault

now the good news, as of the client update released in the last hour, all the btc stuff is out which should solve the gpu and av warnings, and in a blatant attempt to buy back your love (and less likely your trust), i'm going to do the following:

1. 100% of the funds are going into the s14 prize pot, so at the very least your melted gpus contributed to a good cause

2. every user who was premium this month will get a free one month premium code which they can use whenever and for whomever they like, and you'll find the code under manage accounts -> premium codes

once again, our bad, thanks for keeping us honest
Es wurden also sogar 3 BitCoin-Pools für einen Test erstellt und der Coder nimmt die Ganze Verantwortung auf sich.

Selbst der ESEA-CEO Craig Levine nimmt dazu Stellung:

The first I learned about any of this was last night (on any scale). I had no idea any of this was going on.

Needless to say I am completely embarrassed, disgusted, and ashamed.

For the past ten years, I've tried to do nothing more than to act honestly and be an upstanding leader in the gaming community and with some bad decisions by some trusted people it has been thrown out the window.

I'm wrapping my mind around this whole thing and we'll release a formal response, but for the time being just know that this wasn't some ESEA / company wide scam.

I'm committed to doing whatever possible to rebuild the trust we lost through this whole fiasco.
Seiner Aussage nach soll dieses Fiasko nicht auf die ESEA bezogen werden. Bleibt also abzuwarten, wie man mit diesem Skandal umgeht und wer zur Verantwortung gezogen wird.

Denn es wurden schon stimmen aus der ESEA-Community deutlich, welche rechtliche Schritte einleiten wollen:

I'm calling lawyers in New York this morning. For anyone else interested in filing suit against ESEA I would recommend contacting me so we can take this class action as thousands of people were victims of ESEA's willful and malicious actions. I personally have been defrauded and suffered property damage as a result of these assclowns. Two weeks ago my Radeon HD4890 a $300+ card when I got it, fried with no explanation while I wasn't using my computer. I kept smelling something burning coming from my computer and it took me a while to figure out that my expensive video card was overheating. I had to replace the card with a Geforce GTX 550ti... which then went on to BSOD in my pc over and over again. I've since replaced that card with a lower power Radeon 6750 and the BSOD's stopped but my computer kept running ridiculously hot.
Now I know why this happened.
>LPKane and Torbull... if you think I'm playing with you, you're sorely mistaken. You shouldn't have messed with someone who comes from a family of attorneys.

For all parties filing separate legal action, below is ESEA's NY state corporate filing, you'll need this information when filing suit. Also please be aware you'll need to file in Suffolk County district court.
Bleibt also abzuwarten, was genau passieren wird. Wir werden weiterhin darüber berichten

ESEA-CEO Craig Levine meldet sich mit einem offiziellen Statement erneut zu Wort:

Throughout the history of gaming and e-sports, there have been scams and straight up theft by players, teams, event organizers, and even "sponsors.” Over the past ten years ESEA has prided itself on being an upstanding member of the gaming community by providing a high quality service, paying out prize money, and being upfront and transparent with you, the community. We worked hard to build your trust and often took the longer, slower, and more meticulous road than others. That approach has paid off as we had success with our premium service and league. Over the two weeks we failed our community.

ESEA’s goal is to provide our community with cutting edge technology and tools. Whenever possible, the management and owners at ESEA initiate private tests on potential new products and tools that might interest our community. With the whole fervor around Bitcoin, we did conduct some internal tests with the Client on only two of our own, consenting administrators’ accounts to see how the mining process worked and determine whether it was a feature that we might want to add in the future. We thought this might be an exciting new tool that we could provide to our community. Ultimately, we decided that it was not.

On April 13, 2013, after the initial tests, ESEA informed those involved in the test that we were killing the project and they should stop using the beta test. It came to our attention last night, however, that an employee who was involved in the test has been using the test code for his own personal gain since April 13, 2013. What transpired the past two weeks is a case of an employee acting on his own and without authorization to access our community through our company’s resources. We are extremely disappointed and concerned by the unauthorized actions of this unauthorized individual. As of this morning, ESEA has made sure that all Bitcoin mining has stopped. ESEA is also in the process of taking all necessary steps internally to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.

The owners and management at ESEA all apologize to each of you that were impacted by the recent events and intend to make things right. ESEA has issued a free month of ESEA Premium to all of our community members who were enrolled in Premium for the month of April. We also ask anyone who has experienced any physical damage to their computers to open an ESEA support ticket.

In an effort to maintain complete transparency, we have released all of the Bitcoin wallet addresses as well as data dumps of the wallets themselves. The value of the mined Bitcoins was $3,713.50 and ESEA will be donating 100% of the $3,713.50 to the American Cancer Society. ESEA will also match 100% of this amount for a total of $7,427.10 donated. ESEA is also increasing the Season 14 League prize pot by $3,713.50.

As a team, we work hard to create cool things and we’ve worked even harder to consistently do things the right way. While it’s incredibly disturbing and disappointing that this happened, we’re committed to improving ourselves and rebuilding trust with our community.