Yup, I've heard the same about them being on vacation too. In the beginning, when I was going to report the bug about not being able to see my friends list and characters that were stuck, I realized the service center was down. I guess the hacker knew they were going on vacation and decided to do it that week.

But yeah, I've been hearing that people from Aries have been on Taurus picking up/trading items too. It's really crowded and lively I will say, especially on T1. There are so many lvl 1-10 characters that have on a bunch of IM, and people are actually trading each other stuff on world chat, like "Trading 10SS for 2 Spirit Forks" or "S> 3 sets of (f) x-mas suit)"

And there is forever a "congratulations (insert player name here)" because of duped items, so people keep opening color eggs or x-mas suit boxes or something and getting the hoards of prizes. If IGG is gonna ban people, then they might lose a lot of money from Taurus and Aries... ._.