I have 135 blue badges; I hack someone and get a blue badge; I still have 135 blue badges.

I first noticed this about 12 hours ago; thought it might be a glitch and left it for the night but today I am still having the same problem. Some of my legionmates are also reporting blue badges not working as they should, so I don't think it's just my account. One legionmate is also finding the blue badges are not added to his inventory; another says she actually lost about 50 badges.

It's...Working for me...When I hack I get the badge.

EDIT: But yes, I did lose badges from before, I had about 40, and now I have 8.

Blue Badges are awarded for successfully hacking enemy player ships. A badge is NOT awarded for hacking ships of much lower rank (less than 40% of your rank), or hacking the same ship again within 12 hours of the previous successful hack.

They do not take space in your cargo, they go under special.

All very true, but not the problem I am having.

I hack someone in my Battle Tab, and the game tells me I have received a blue badge. But the number of badges I have does not increase.

And my badges are disappearing out of my cargo too.

I just hacked a few people and blues for each

Just tried again and it looks like it's working. Not sure what the problem was, but I'm going to go collect a few badges now since I can. I will update again if things change.

Still working.

I'm actually wondering if I may have done the really dumb thing and been looking at the number for silver badges all this time (I had similar numbers of each). But even if that explains my badge problem, it doesn't explain the badges disappearing from other peoples' inventories.