Looks like some banned Overwatch players might be reacting a little more poorly than we’d first thought, with a DDoS attack knocking the game—and by extension a lot of other Blizzard titles—out of service this afternoon.
UPDATE: Fixed:
The DDoS attacks from earlier have ended and players can now log into BattleNet. We are investigating reports of World Server Down in WoW.
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) August 3, 2016
Original story continues below:
It started with login issues:
We are currently investigating reports of login issues. Apologies for any inconvenience caused, and we hope to have this resolved soon!
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) August 2, 2016
Then:
We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games.
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) August 2, 2016
And:
We are continuing to monitor the DDoS attack currently affecting BattleNet services. Updates here: https://t.co/2hKQ6L7kt0
— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) August 3, 2016
Blizzard has since said that “Our network engineers are working on addressing the issue and resolving the attack as quickly as possible.”
The hacking group PoodleCorpis claiming responsibility.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/760619492779122688
Shame, Lucioball is great and now nobody can play it.
