04-05-2014, 04:51 PM
To clear up some confusion (some people don't know what they're talking about), the game wasn't hacked.
Basically someone has been flooding the servers continuum's hosted on with dummy traffic, so much traffic that they aren't able to respond to legitimate traffic from actual players. Having the ability to do this requires some resources (botnet, idk) probably purchased with bitcoin or something somwhere in the deep dark internet.
Every single company on the internet would benefit from mitigating DoS attacks since it the effect isn't localized to the target. No one wants to carry dummy traffic on their pipes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
http://blog.cloudflare.com/understanding-and-mitigating-ntp-based-ddos-attacks
Basically someone has been flooding the servers continuum's hosted on with dummy traffic, so much traffic that they aren't able to respond to legitimate traffic from actual players. Having the ability to do this requires some resources (botnet, idk) probably purchased with bitcoin or something somwhere in the deep dark internet.
Every single company on the internet would benefit from mitigating DoS attacks since it the effect isn't localized to the target. No one wants to carry dummy traffic on their pipes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
http://blog.cloudflare.com/understanding-and-mitigating-ntp-based-ddos-attacks