Activision Blizzard’s game client Battle.net was hacked. The DDoS type attack lasted more than an hour. Players had trouble accessing the games during this process.
Game client of Activision Blizzard, which has become one of the most popular game studios with games such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. of Battle.net It was announced that he was cyber-attacked at night. In the statements made on the company’s Twitter account, it was stated that the attack type was DDoS. Least attack that lasted for an hourterminated without any data breach.
Activision Blizzard’s first statement on the subject, at around 02:00 done. Officials, who said that players may encounter problems such as high ping or direct disconnection in this process, announced that they were working to repel the attack. In the second statement made at around 03:30, no problem and it was stated that you can safely log in to Battle.net.
Almost every game has a problem
When we look at the data on outage notification platforms such as Downdetector, we see that the DDoS attack is within Activision Blizzard. almost all games We see it affecting Players have had trouble accessing games like Diablo III, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Call of Duty, and playing even if they can. As of now, it seems that there is no trace of this attack. By the way, by whom or by whom the attack was carried out and for what purpose. Unknown.
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