Game world disaster. DDoS attack on Blizzard servers.

On the 20^th of June a hacker AppleJ4ack (known to be affiliated with Lizard Squad group) tweeted about his intention to attack battle.net – Blizzard Entertainment’s gaming network.

Hai there @BlizzardCS
Don't mind me, just doing some preparations.
Take care of my packets, Thanks😘

— AppleJ4ck (@AppleJ4ckxoxo) June 20, 2016

Later that day massive problems with users’ authentication started. Thousands of players around the world had difficulties loging in their accounts in Diablo, World of Warcraft, Overwatch and other popular games by Blizzard.

Later Blizzard’s technical support reported minor malfunctions in their authentication services that led to temporary block of user’s accounts. For the same reason multiplayer mode was unavailable either. Players kept being kicked out of the online matches.

The issues were resolved soon afterwards but users outside the US. Still report having problems.

It’s not the first raid of the Lizard Squad group against video games produces. Therewas a notorious hack of PS4 and Xbox before.