Blizzard Targeted By DDoS Attack

Blizzard has confirmed a recent DDoS attack on Battle.net, causing login issues, high latency, and disconnections.

Blizzard Entertainment has reported a DDoS attack that’s been targeting Battle.net, affecting players’ logins and other issues. Blizzard, an American developer and publisher, exists as a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard and is known for running the popular IPs World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch.

Battle.net is Blizzard’s online gaming service that first launched in 1996, and the platform changed its name to “Blizzard Battle.net” in 2017 but reverted to the original name in 2021. Battle.net supports all the studio’s modern titles, including Hearthstone, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, and several Call of Duty games. Blizzard suffered another DDoS attack back in 2020, which caused the Battle.net servers to go down, rendering players unable to access their games. Luckily, the current attack has been resolved for most.

Reported on April 3 on social media, Blizzard confirmed Battle.net was experiencing a DDoS attack, causing high latency and disconnection issues for some players, including faulty logins, similar to Final Fantasy 14’s 7.2 update recently targeted by DDoS attacks. The team stated they were actively working to mitigate the attack, and later announced on April 4 that the issue had ended. However, despite Blizzard confirming that the login problems had been solved, some players were still struggling to get into Battle.net. As a solution, the company advised players to run troubleshooting for connection problems if the login issues continued.

Blizzard Confirms Recent DDoS Attack That Targeted Battle.net

To placate the player base suffering technical issues, Blizzard previously revived Hardcore World of Warcraft characters lost in another DDoS attack, and fans are questioning why these cyber issues keep happening. Several social media users complained in response to the DDoS announcement, urging Blizzard to beef up its security. Furthermore, a handful of Warcraft players asked if compensation was going to be given for the number of in-game hours lost to the wave of DDoS attacks occurring recently.

On a lighter note, Blizzard is currently reviewing StarCraft game pitches from four major Korean developers, who all have exciting ideas on where to take the beloved science-fiction franchise next. Netmarble, Nexon, Krafton, and NCSoft have all expressed interest in helming the next project, suggesting everything from a new mobile game to diving into the RPG genre. The last StarCraft title to be released was the remastered version of the original game back in 2017, so fans are keeping their fingers crossed for new content in the pipeline.

Source: Game Rant