Massive DDOS Attack Targets Blizzard's Battle.net Servers

Blizzard’s Battle.net service experienced significant disruptions due to a DDOS attack. This attack affected a variety of popular Blizzard titles, including World of Warcraft and Overwatch 2. While the issue has now been resolved, it highlights the challenges of relying on a single online service for all of Blizzard’s games.

[Snookies12]

Listen, I despise Blizzard. They're probably at the top of my list for disliked game companies. But this is NOT okay. Screw anyone who's involved with doing crap like this.

[SullysCigar]

Looks like someone else hates them too. These 'plastic hackers' suck, but you know, so does karma sometimes.

[Flenter]

Exactly 😉

[1nsomniac]

All these kids thinking these corporations wouldn’t screw them over in a heartbeat if they could get away with it hahaha.

Sometimes grownups have to put themselves out and do things they don’t like in order to bring awareness to the unaware or plain ignorant.

This IS doing more damage to the company than any workers strike or fake apologies did.

[sadraiden]

If you despise Blizzard, why is a DDOS attack so repugnant to you?

[CrimsonWing69]

Dude, c’mon, man. It’s one thing to dislike a company and vote with your wallet. There’s absolutely no justification for hacking, being disruptive, and damaging a company through illegal means and ruining other people’s experiences.

[frostypants]

Maybe he's older than 12.

[DarXyde]

CrimsonWing69,

I get the sense that a DDOS attack is what people resort to when voting with your wallet doesn't feel substantive enough. Y'know? Like, you can personally boycott them, but it really does nothing to even touch them. ABK is one of several companies I refuse to buy from and it's still pretty profitable, so my opinion doesn't really register to them. Some people go a step further and REALLY want them to feel inconvenienced or damaged, and I think that's what we're seeing now.

I'd never do it personally, but I'm not losing sleep at all when it happens.

[anast]

A person of pure moral standards...

[Flewid638]

What is it about them you dont like?

[XxINFERNUSxX]

I love it, keep doing it fuck Blizzard. I hope they do worse next time.

[Sonic1881]

Microsoft has to deal with them now 😂

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Yeah oh well🤣 The disagrees are the people who want to support the shitty company Blizzard, who don't give a shit about their employees, pretty sad.

[Duke19]

These attacks don’t hurt blizzard at all tho, they still collect $ all the same. The only ones it hurts are the gamers.

It’s really not a hard concept to understand that DDOS attacks are bad

[DarthZoolu]

Zero gaming was interrupted lol

[Duke19]

It literally said players were unable to login in the article…

DDOS attacks only hurt the users of the platform (in this case gamers)

[DarthZoolu]

Damn, we missed out on 3 whole overwatch 2 matches lol

[Profchaos]

DDoS attacks don't hurt the publishers or studios they hurt the players and these attacks are not really hacks they are disruptive attacks designed to take infrastructure offline not penetrate infrastructure.

Acti blizzard should really invest in better DDoS prevention it's becoming a industry norm it's amazing these DDoS attacks even still work these days. On the flipside most companies are always on the back leg when it comes to cyber protections until they are targeted by a successful campaign. You'd think though that everyone in the gaming industry would have looked at the Xbox underground group as a warning there's large profits and bragging rights in successfully attacking gaming companies even if it's not for profit and just to play games pre release

[MadLad]

Yet they still force even their single player experiences to be online.

[anast]

Exactly. They want you to pay full price for a product that everyone can control, shut down, and cheat. This is why not making this game F2P is sleazy.

[anast]

Is this why the skeletons in D4 look like D3 skeletons now?

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Hopefully its not Sony.

[Rude-ro]

It is not.
Blizzard has been dealing with a group of frustrated gamers who do this in protest for various reasons.
They did this to ea as well.
With some simple searching one can easily find this out.

[Binarycode]

DDOS attacks are not hackers.

lol anyone can do it.

But just don't.

[Gamer_Dude]

Interesting the amount of people that will condone a felony because it's against a company they don't like.