BioWare performed a short maintenance to fix some bugs with the Bounty Contract Week. Servers should all be back up now. Below are the patch notes:
2.3.0c Patch Notes
8/16/2013
General
- An issue affecting the spawn rate of Shady Characters has been corrected. The respawn rate of Shady Characters has been increased significantly.
- The “information” count required to advance Bounty Contract missions has been reduced to 4 (from 5).