Blizzard game servers were overloaded and brought down by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack overnight that hacker group Lizard Squad appears to have claimed responsibility for.
Overwatch worked fine for me just now but the European Battle.net launcher still carries a warning related to the DDoS attacks. The official Blizzard customer support Twitter account, however, claims the issues are resolved.
Blizzard's severs went down several hours ago now. Shortly before they overloaded, Lizard Squad tweeted "Get ready!", and then followed up with tweets announcing the Blizzard game services that were down.
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Overwatch worked fine for me just now but the European Battle.net launcher still carries a warning related to the DDoS attacks. The official Blizzard customer support Twitter account, however, claims the issues are resolved.
Blizzard's severs went down several hours ago now. Shortly before they overloaded, Lizard Squad tweeted "Get ready!", and then followed up with tweets announcing the Blizzard game services that were down.
Read more…
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