Another day another victim of DDoS attack — This time, it’s the Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer.
Blizzard has suffered a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks disrupting the service on Battle.net servers at the end of Overwatch’s Summer Games event. The same event that was under attack when it began on 2nd August 2016.
The attack took place earlier Wednesday morning and triggered worldwide disruption, blocking users from logging in and playing games like Overwatch, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft amongst others.
Gamers trying to login to Blizzard were either blocked or saw ‘connection timeout’ message on their screens. Earlier today, on its official Twitter handle, Blizzard acknowledged that a DDoS attack is being monitored.
We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games.
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) August 23, 2016
Previously, PoodleCorp hacking group claimed responsibility for attacking Blizzard servers but no one has taken responsibility for the latest attack, at least not yet. The same group who made their name in the news for hacking popular YouTube channels including WatchMogo, Redmercy, LeafyisHere, LillySi
Some gamers are not happy with the situation and blaming Blizzard for intentionally taking its servers offline as it is August 23rd, and the alleged next Overwatch hero, the hacker Sombra, will be the game’s 23rd hero. However about 5 hours, ago according to a tweet, the gaming giant was still monitoring a DDoS attack.
We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games.
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) August 24, 2016
About 2 hours ago Blizzard posted another tweet aggravating gamers about a new series of DDoS attacks against network providers affecting Latency/connections to their games and Bnet servers.
We are currently investigating a new series of DDOS attacks against network providers, affecting latency/connections to our games/Bnet
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) August 24, 2016
One hour ago in another Tweet Blizzard revealed that servers are back online yet several gamers Tweeted that they still can’t access the server.
Can't connect to the https://t.co/qzm4HFLi8N.
— Nonthapat Promprieng (@nonthapatps) August 24, 2016
J'viens juste de finir de dl le PTR et vlà que les illuminatis ddos BliBli, je suis tristes :'(
— Victor MJT (@MVExocet) August 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/Mavis_Seiche/status/768427687841042432
This is the third time since the launch of Overwatch in May that Blizzard has suffered DDoS attack, let’s see what’s next for them.