Blizzard confirms World of Warcraft DDOS attacks

[Administrator]

As European World of Warcraft servers creak under the Warlords of Draenor strain, North American servers face an additional, more severe, problem: a DDOS attack.
It was significant enough for Blizzard to formally acknowledge it in the WOW forum. "We ran into a few other issues [in NA]," explained community manager Bashiok, "including a distributed denial of service attack, that resulted in increased latency."
The latest is that there will be server maintenance on all NA realms from 5am PST (1pm GMT) today, lasting approximately four hours.
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