A hacker group is taking credit for disrupting online service for some of the biggest video games, including Activision Blizzard’s Destiny and Call of Duty: Ghosts and titles from Electronic Arts.
Fans noticed the disruption of service yesterday. Lizard Squad, a hacker group, posted yesterday that EA games, Call of Duty: Ghosts, and Destiny were “#offline.” That’s a big problem for Destiny in particular, since this online game launched on Sept. 9 and is considered one of the biggest releases of the year. Activision is reporting spending $500 million on the launch of Destiny and other content, and the game generated $325 million in its first five days.
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Activision, Bungie, and EA haven’t commented on the status of the server problems.
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Hacker groups have used distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to take down game servers by flooding the network with requests.
Lizard Squad has not explained reasons for its attack.
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