EA sports servers are down and gamers are furious on Twitter — About 11hours ago, PoodleCorp did claim responsibility of DDoSing EA servers.
The gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) is currently experiencing an outage in which EA games, services and support have been impacted.
Those gamers who are unaware of the situation should know that earlier, a hacking group PoodleCorp claimed responsibility of conducting a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on EA games’ servers however that was about 11hours ago. It is quite possible that the group has restated attacking EA servers.
EA is currently experiencing an outage. EA games, services & support may be impacted. We’re working to resolve as fast as possible.
— EA Help (@EAHelp) August 31, 2016
Here are three tweets from PoodleCorp claiming they DDoSed EA games and ruined your day:
https://twitter.com/Gh0stPoodle/status/770851623526694912
Here are tweets from gamers expressing their anger:
https://twitter.com/ethannf502/status/771062078627078144
You're all just a bunch of cunts really aren't you, seems the internet is afraid to say anything, I'm not, CUNTS @PoodleCorp & LizzSquad.
— Nemesis (@NemesisOfficiaI) August 31, 2016
https://twitter.com/ThePs4Pros/status/771054958200381440
https://twitter.com/DesiraeLaguna/status/771054874540675072
You mean like the Pokemon go servers were on August 1st oh yeah totally https://t.co/oGU7Pyi2vd
— Zack™ (@ZackMDSFT) August 31, 2016
https://twitter.com/Vuffle/status/771054699860590592
https://twitter.com/Scorpiongmod/status/771056959789404160
https://twitter.com/Franek_La/status/771062092015304704
@PoodleCorp We love you..But stop Hacking EA…Hack Treyarch plz
— WWIIBETACODEGIVEAWAY (@Faisal1820F) August 31, 2016
Who is PoodleCorp?
PoodleCorp is a group of hackers and DDos attackers who previously hacked some top YouTube channels including WatchMogo, Redmercy, LeafyisHere, and LillySingh. The same group conducted a series of DDoS attacks on several other gaming giants including Blizzard and League of Legends, Pokemon Go, Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and PlayStation servers.
On the other hand, about 12 hours ago Blizzard games also tweeted that they are monitoring a DDoS attack on their server however it is still unclear if PoodleCorp was behind the attack or some other group.
The DDoS from earlier is no longer affecting gameplay. We're working on an issue with DCs during loading for our Oceanic players
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) August 31, 2016
We're currently investigating a new DDoS event that is impacting player connections. Updates to follow!
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) August 31, 2016
EA has yet to confirm exactly who was responsible for the server downtime.
Update:
EA’s support twitter handle tweeted that the server has been restored however the reason for such a long service outage was not mentioned or discussed.
EA games & services are available. Support wait times may still be impacted. For 1×1 assistance, please contact us: https://t.co/5ruQb6pQ7D
— EA Help (@EAHelp) September 1, 2016