Just as one group is claimingto have brought down many of EA’s servers, another is boasting of having taken down much of Valve’s mighty Steam network.
https://kotaku.com/hackers-claim-to-have-broken-eas-origin-service-on-p-1493676357
A pairof Twitterusers are claiming to be behind a series of DDoS attacks that, if they’re the actual cause of disruption, have rendered Steam’s marketplace and community services patchy (or indeed inaccessible) for much of the day.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/418987015959363584
I know, it sounds a little much, but the fact is that Steam’s store and community features have been crippled for much of the evening (though there have been brief windows of availability).
@LARCENY_ posted an image earlier of Low Orbit Ion Cannon, a DDoS tool, writing “What we are hitting with”.
There’s no mention of planned maintenance from Steam’s Twitter page
With a dash or irony, even the normally-useful “Is Steam Down” page was down for a while.
We’ve contacted Valve for comment, and will update if we hear back.
