Between 2 August and 22 August, players can purchase special loot boxes that include new Olympic-themed cosmetic items including sprays, skins, emotes, icons and victory poses, and participate in a new limited-time game mode, Lucioball. The outage occurred on the same day Blizzard launched its first seasonal event, in celebration of the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In June, Blizzard's servers suffered multiple outages due to alleged DDoS attacks by hacker group Lizard Squad that prevented players from logging into the company's games. This was not a DDoS event and we are working on a resolution.- BlizzardCS August 3, 2016 We're investigating an issue that disconnected players. However, the company noted in a separate tweet that they are investigating the issue that disconnected Overwatch players, claiming that it was "not a DDoS event" and was working on a fix for the issue. They added they are still "currently investigating reports of World Server Down in WoW". The group also warned that they are looking to target another gaming network "soon".īlizzard's official Customer Support Twitter account later confirmed that the DDoS attack has ended and players can once again log into their BattleNet accounts. Their claim, however, has not been confirmed by the company yet.
PoodleCorp, the same hacker group that claimed to have launched a DDoS attack to cripple Pokémon Go's servers last week, claimed responsibility for the attack on Blizzard on Twitter. "Our network engineers are working on addressing the issue and resolving the attack as quickly as possible." "We are aware of a DDoS attack that is currently affecting stability across all games," a Blizzard representative wrote in the company's forums. Pokemon Go servers crash after alleged DDoS attack by hacking collective PoodleCorp
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