Blizzard struggling with a DDoS attack from Lizard Squad

Blizzard keeps its users updated through social channels. He is facing an attack of the type distributed denial-of-service attacks perpetrated by well-known hacker group Lizard Squad, designed to prevent players from using certain services and residents online games on Battle.net platform.

We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers Which is Affecting connections to our games. https://t.co/YsDZ0CYdFX

- BlizzardCS (@BlizzardCS) April 14, 2016
Also on Twitter, Lizard Squad had posted a cryptic message just before the start of the Battle.net problems. The same account of Lizard Squad ritwittava picture that showed how a person had been able to access the inbox of one of the employees of Blizzard. It seems, in fact, that cybercriminals are in possession of personal information of members of the software house based in Irvine, including Mike Morhaime.

US #Offline Blizzard - WoW #Offline, #Offline Diablo 3, Starcraft 2 #Offline, Hearthstone #Offline @fbiarelosers @ AppleJ4ckxoxo

- Lizard Squad (@LizardLands) April 14, 2016
In the past Lizard Squad had attacked Blizzard: in 2014, in fact, had addressed a DDoS is against World of Warcraft that Sony Online Entertainment, the EverQuest publisher. During the Christmas holidays of that year, Lizard Squad also attacked the network services of the Xbox and PlayStation, putting them offline for one and five days, respectively.

Cyber ​​attacks like the one on Battle.net can result in significant monetary damages to proprietary companies of online services. This is why the gaming is one of the privileged sectors by hackers, as we have seen in this study. It is therefore likely that the FBI decides to move to shed light also on the attack again, as happened in 2014.

The DDoS attack is doing some connection problems and lag certain users to Battle.net. As well as through social, Blizzard maintains updated its users also via the launcher of the games and its official forum.