Both Steam and Origin have been hit with DDoS attacks, causing outages to the services.
One of the muppets – let’s not call them hackers because they are not – has been tweeting screens of the software he (or she) is using to take down Origin.
EA seem to be aware of the attacks and have tweeted that they are investigating the problem. The Origin service does seem to be running for some users but Steam is still down and Valve has yet to respond to the problem.
We're working to resolve connectivity/login issues affecting various platforms/games. Thank you for your patience. Updates when available^EX
— EA Help (@EAHelp) January 3, 2014
Nocure-fd
Well, they can have Origin….But Steam? Seems a little excessive to me.
Anyone mentioned a reason for all this?
hazelam
because they’re a bunch of selfish, malicious twats?
the muppets i mean, not Origin or Steam.
Kennykazey
Surely someone, somewhere, must be working on a way to make servers immune to these attacks.
blarty
You can’t make servers immune to DDOS attacks, unless they’re extremely primitive, it’s the internet analogy of an angry mob trying to get through a single doorway, when usually the single doorway is quite sufficient.
Muskyy
The only way to stop DDOS is to have more bandwidth than the “hackers” (lol) have access to.
beeje13
You can, by using something similar to Cloudflare. More info in a blog here: http://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-prevention-protecting-the-origin
And the story of one of the biggest ever DDoS’s: http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-offline-and-ho
Amphlett
People are constantly working on protecting their online services.
Muskyy
They’re getting exactly what they want with sites like TSA writing about them.
Starman
The sooner these ejits go back to school the better. Bored kids thinking they’re some elite hacker group.
MadBoJangles
Very frustrating.
Only want to log on and craft another badge :(
DividSmythe
Truly sad little children are these fools. As said in the article their not hackers. I just don’t understand why it’s done.
lambchop
Is it those TWERP guys again?
shane12
Yep afraid it is, they now have 53k+ followers on twitter it’s a joke. chFtheCat took down steam and Derp took down Origin. They will keep doing this and they are now requesting followers to join in with the attacks (which they are) plenty of comments saying bring down PSN, one comment even says “can I speak to you because it would be an honor” like wtf. They also take requests so nobodies safe to be honest.
beeje13
This is what the NSA, GCHQ should be using their resources to stop.
shane12
100% Agree with beeje13, I mean why not attack WBBC (which they have done) but if they focused on pedos and sex offenders at least there is a reason behind it. I think us gamer’s now need the Jesters help, if you don’t know who he is look him up on twitter great guy helps out companies with their security flaws, even has his laptop in the national spy museum lol.