{"id":463157,"date":"2022-10-05T07:29:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T05:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=463157"},"modified":"2022-10-05T07:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T05:59:03","slug":"activision-blizzard-hit-by-ddos-attack-on-overwatch-2-launch-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/463157-activision-blizzard-hit-by-ddos-attack-on-overwatch-2-launch-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Activision Blizzard hit by DDoS attack on Overwatch 2 launch day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activision Blizzard Inc. was hit with a cyberattack on Tuesday, causing wide-scale connectivity issues during the launch of its hotly anticipated\u00a0Overwatch 2\u00a0video game.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Ybarra, president of Activision subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment, tweeted that the company was experiencing \u201ca mass DDoS attack\u201d on its servers Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed-denial-of-service attacks, known as DDoS, are when traffic is directed at an organization\u2019s servers that support a website, effectively knocking it offline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-social-embedded\" data-social-media-type=\"twitter\" data-original-url=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Qwik\/statuses\/1577396593153564672\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unfortunately we are experiencing a mass DDoS attack on our servers. Teams are working hard to mitigate\/manage. This is causing a lot of drop\/connection issues.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4GwrfHEiBE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/4GwrfHEiBE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Ybarra (@Qwik)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Qwik\/status\/1577396593153564672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The launch of\u00a0Overwatch 2\u00a0already had long queue times for players waiting to get a chance to play the new game.<\/p>\n<p>It had been six years since the original, highly acclaimed\u00a0<em>Overwatch<\/em>\u00a0first came out and the sequel is one of Activision\u2019s flagship game launches this year.<\/p>\n<p>Activision Blizzard didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the attack, players complained on Twitter of connectivity issues.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Ybarra had tweeted that teams were working on server issues and were \u201chumbled by the excitement of players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, anticipation of the launch was clouded Monday when the National Labor Relations Board found that the company withheld raises for some of its staff for campaigning to form a union,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video-games\/2022\/10\/03\/activision-raven-union-raises-nlrb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>according to<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Corp. announced in January that it had agreed to buy the video game publisher in a deal valued at almost $69 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The software giant is facing regulatory scrutiny over concerns the acquisition could hamper competition.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/462641-intel-shows-how-arc-a750-and-arc-a770-cards-beat-rtx-3060-on-price-to-performance.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel shows how Arc A750 and Arc A770 cards beat RTX 3060 on price-to-performance<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision Blizzard was hit with a cyberattack on Tuesday, causing wide-scale connectivity issues during the launch of its hotly anticipated\u00a0Overwatch 2\u00a0video game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":463159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11535,72252,19562,123,62158],"class_list":["post-463157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-activision-blizzard","tag-cyberattacks","tag-distributed-denial-of-service-ddos","tag-microsoft","tag-overwatch-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463161,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463157\/revisions\/463161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}