Warcraft, Overwatch Down? Blizzard DDoS Attacks Affect Gaming Service
Miscreants have struck Blizzard servers again with multiple waves of DDoS attacks over the last 12 hours. Warcraft and Overwatch, two massively popular games, have been facing latency, login and disconnection issues even while Blizzard has been working on fixing the problem.
The company first acknowledged the problem in a tweet Sunday evening.
[#Overwatch #Warcraft] We are currently investigating reports of high latency for some players. We'll provide updates as they are available.
— Blizzard CS - The Americas (@BlizzardCS) December 4, 2016
[#Overwatch #Warcraft] UPDATE: We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack which is affecting latency/connections to our games.
— Blizzard CS - The Americas (@BlizzardCS) December 4, 2016
Since then, Blizzard claimed to have regained control over matters at its end, only to announce twice the DDoS attacks had restarted. Its last update, at 11:42 p.m. EST Sunday, came three hours after the last wave of DDoS attacks.
Our technicians are still investigating but things do appear to have calmed down a bit. We'll provide more info as it is available.
— Blizzard CS - The Americas (@BlizzardCS) December 5, 2016
On Twitter, a group calling itself Phantom Squad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Blizzard also provided a link to a support page on its website that may help some users troubleshoot their connection problems.
As always, social media was abuzz with users venting their frustration at the gaming servers being affected. This is at least the fifth such instance in the last few months.
Stll cant connect going on 8 hrs now any update for us that still couldnt connect previously when others could?
— jordan (@dabeast5220) December 5, 2016
blizzard keeps logging me out i just wanna play games
— Yam (@yanzokk) December 5, 2016
Well seems Blizzard aint doing their job well enough to STOP the ddos attacks. Same is said for the FBI no wonder the FBI didnt catch LS
— Trevor Sommerfelt (@TSommerfelt) December 5, 2016
The company also has a scheduled maintenance coming up Tuesday.
MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE 12/06: #Warcraft: 5:00 AM (PST) - 6:00 AM (PST) https://t.co/Vi4qw5h8bM pic.twitter.com/E1knTGsk4m
— Blizzard CS - The Americas (@BlizzardCS) December 5, 2016
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