So Mike why do you think if someone broke into your server and tried to hack it and you appeared on their IRC they would tell anything even closely remote to the truth?
Seriously you will take the words from an account on a random IRC over your own player and multiple at that?
Firstly, they didn't break in - they were probing it for a way in. As I stated in my post, there was a potential vulnerability in that I was allowing SSLv3 - which could have been a potential problem if someone was able to sniff traffic (unlikely). Freak who had probed my server for vulns probably decided to antagonise me, in an attempt to appear more knowledgeable, by posting in my IRC (in case I didn't see the YT comment I guess). I find it unlikely that when I joined freak's IRC he would pull a random name out of a hat and ask me if it was RabidBat that I had banned.
10:03:04] <Freak> are you k1own btw
[10:03:07] <mikesheen> no
[10:03:10] <mikesheen> I'm mike
[10:03:13] <Freak> is that mark
[10:03:16] <mikesheen> no
[10:03:20] <mikesheen> I'm mike sheen
[10:03:28] <Freak> -_-
[10:03:31] <mikesheen> I own the servers, k10wn runs the starmade server
[10:04:03] <Freak> oh well i was called cause mr k1own banned one of my friends and his friends for hacking
[10:04:11] <Freak> but apprently they were not doing so
[10:04:30] <Freak> so thats who i am
[10:04:30] <mikesheen> one was banned for potential hacking, then unbanned
[10:04:39] <Freak> rabidbat?
[10:05:04] <Freak> he had mentioned his stuff was deleted or something ( i dont play starmade )
As I have already established, this was not just some random - I did the legwork and joined the dots, I don't make such accusations without being satisfied myself there is proof.