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Steam, Origin brought down briefly in separate attacks

Steam, Origin brought down briefly in separate attacks
Lewis Leong

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Both Steam and Origin were taken down last evening by separate denial of service (DDoS) attacks but service has since been restored. Valve and EA’s game distribution platforms were targeted by different hacker organizations for no apparent reason other than for the lulz. Ars Technica speculates these attacks could be related to the attacks against YouTube user PhantomL0rd.

EA’s Origin service was first to go down at around 7PM PST, affecting all its games which require an internet connection. Even the Battlefield companion app, Battlelog, suffered service outages. Hacker organization, Derp Trolling, has taken responsibility for this attack and the attacks on League of Legends, Battle.net, and DOTA 2 in recent days.

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Steam went down soon after, preventing access to Steam Cloud and the Steam Store. While Steam was also hit with a targeted DDoS attack, it was a separate attack by Twitter users @LARCENY_ and @chF.

Service for both Steam and Origin are back to full functionality, though that doesn’t mean much for Battlefield 4 users facing the usual server issues.

Via: Ars Technica

Images via Derp Trolling

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