Yesterday afternoon, the above is apparently what happened to Gumi's website. Shortly after that, all players seemed to receive a random gift of 5000 lapis (which I believe comes out to about $40 - $50).
Some people knew about the hack, some didn't. Some thought it was just a gift and spent it on a character pull or maybe they were going to hold onto it. But shortly after the lapis went out to everyone, the game went down for maintenance.
It has now been down since late yesterday afternoon. Gumi originally put out a Facebook post about 15 hours ago saying there was simply an "issue with the game." About 10 minutes ago, they released their first statement since:
The questions now: how long will this last? What will compensation for players be, considering this likely put accounts and personal information in danger?
And perhaps most curious, for me at least, how did this happen? These hackers got into their website but did that somehow also allow them to inject in-game currency into the accounts of players? I would have thought those would be two completely separate entities.
This is also very bad timing as Square Enix just announced within the past 24 hours that the game is their main mobile revenue generator and that it helped push the developer's revenues to $518 million in its Q1 FY18.
And that's without getting into the playerbase, which seems to be a bit frustrated lately with the terrible RNG from events, such as the limited time Nier banner.
It should also be noted that Gumi's other game, Brave Frontier, has also been down this entire time as well.
