DDoS Attacks on Gaming

[Demon_Skeith]

Three of the biggest gaming services on the planet have been down for parts of the weekend, with DDoS attacks hitting the servers of the PlayStation Network, Riot's League of Legends and Blizzard's Battle.net (affecting titles such as World of Warcraft and Hearthstone).

A DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack is when bots are used to flood a system (usually with external communications requests), overwhelming it and making it unusable.

•     Blizzard was hit on Saturday, with service mostly restored by early on Sunday morning.
•     League of Legends was attacked on Saturday.3
•     Sony's issues have been ongoing.

The DDoS attacks on Sony extended to Sony Online Entertainment servers, with SOE boss John Smedley tweeting:

Smedley would later be the subject of a bomb threat hoax on an aircraft he was traveling on.

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Earlier today, the PSN went down thanks to a group that did a DDOS attack. It looks like the same people are trying to target the Xbox Live service now too.

The “Lizard Squad” tweeted a message asking if people are having issues with “Xbox Live Login servers”. This is the same group that have admitted they were behind the attacks of the PSN as well.

If you look at the Xbox Live status official website, some services are limited at the moment. The issues don’t seem to be as widespread as the PSN, but some people are experiencing some troubles logging in.

Game Informer noted they had some issues logging in to the Xbox Live services for Xbox 360, but Xbox One seems to be fine at the moment. If you look for people’s reaction on Twitter, there are quite a few people having problems with Xbox Live now too. Pretty sad that now both PSN and Xbox Live seems to be down for a lot of people today.

Microsoft is aware of the issues of Xbox Live and posted the following message:

“Are you having a tough time signing into Live? We want you to know our team is aware of the issue and working hard to get things back to normal as soon as we can. Thank you for being patient. We’ll provide an update for you in 30 minutes”

We will continue to update you all on both the PSN and Xbox Live today.

Update: It appears the Xbox Live service wasn’t as bad as PSN. People playing Diablo 3 are still having problems. Other than that, Xbox Live should be okay now.

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So who is next? Nintendo or Steam?

 

[Desum]

I probably think it would be steam, nintendo dont have enough constant players, where as steam has over 5 million players logging on every day
check out this real time chart, tis pretty kewl http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&time=16306&view=map

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Yeah if these hackers really wanted to mess things up they would need to go after steam.

 

[Baz]

Some people just have too much time on their hands.

 

[IntoxNitram]

Such a sad thing to do. They get nothing out of it apart from an investigation from the FBI.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Such a sad thing to do. They get nothing out of it apart from an investigation from the FBI.

I'm sure they got street cred out of this.

 

[froggyboy604]

It is sad that people want to DDoS gaming services where people just want to play for fun.

I think PC being able to play multi-player offline with multiple PC with its own screen connected to one wired or wireless router is one of the biggest advantages of PC that P  can play offline multiplayer which makes it safe from online DDoS affecting people's gameplay.

 

[WildFire]

DDoS attacks can be really annoy. Especially when you get disconnected from your favourite game server every 5 minutes...

 

[RyuKenGouken]

These people who do this ruin it for so many people they need to stop this and seriously get a life