Blizzard, PlayStation Network, and more under wide DDoS attack

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MoHasanie on 24 August 2014

Several gaming servers have been at the receiving end of DDoS attacks over the past several hours. Blizzard's Battle.net servers, Riot's League of Legends, Grinding Gear Games' Path of Exile, and PlayStation Network are among those under attack by a group of hackers calling themselves Lizard Squad.

Several tweets have gone up throughout Saturday evening, in which Lizard Squad has taken responsibility for the attacks. The group started with Blizzard's servers that include Hearthstone, Diablo 3, World of Warcraft and others. The group quickly spread to League of Legends and Path of Exile before deciding to spread their terror to PlayStation Network. The latter's outage is not related to the scheduled maintenance set to begin Monday morning.

The situation is ongoing, as the various staffs work hard to get the servers active again.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/85951/blizzard-playstation-network-and-more-under-wide-ddos-attack

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 24 August 2014

See look, its not a PC Master Race thing then

And man, aren't these people annoying, they should really quit being such twats and quit bothering people with their kiddie hacks

I do have to wonder why they are doing this, maybe they just want some attention

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kljesta64 on 24 August 2014

I have only one question.. can they find those guys or not ?

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WhiteEaglePL on 24 August 2014

That's a -1 for Sony's great PR.

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kljesta64 said:
I have only one question.. can they find those guys or not ?

Depends on where they are guess. The real question is what they will attack next...

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TheWPCTraveler on 24 August 2014

You know, if Sony can't fix this before their routine maintenance...they're in a bind.

By the way, these so-called hackers are just being a negative impact to society at this point. Then again, they're like viruses acting upon an immune system. Hmm.

If these hackers end up getting these companies to invest more in security, I'll support them, I guess.

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MoHasanie said:

kljesta64 said:
I have only one question.. can they find those guys or not ?

Depends on where they are guess. The real question is what they will attack next...

If there are like 10 of those idiots scattered all around the world its going to be hard.. we can play MK8..for now!

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

See look, its not a PC Master Race thing then

And man, aren't these people annoying, they should really quit being such twats and quit bothering people with their kiddie hacks

I do have to wonder why they are doing this, maybe they just want some attention

Its all about revenge i guess.

They said that they DDoS'ed Sony because they aren't spending the money they are getting from PS+ on better servers etc.

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RealGamingExpert said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

See look, its not a PC Master Race thing then

And man, aren't these people annoying, they should really quit being such twats and quit bothering people with their kiddie hacks

I do have to wonder why they are doing this, maybe they just want some attention

Its all about revenge i guess.

They said that they DDoS'ed Sony because they aren't spending the money they are getting from PS+ on better servers etc.

But that doesn't make sense. DDOS attacks aren't a good way to prove this. Live has been hit by them and they went down too. I think they're just looking for attention.