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Twitter suspends account claiming responsibility for WoW DDoS attack, Blizzard confirms suspect has been arrested

UPDATE (September 20th): Blizzard has announced that a suspect has been arrested over this incident.

It said in a forum post: “Immediately after the Distributed Denial of Service attacks against our game service began, the Blizzard Security Team worked around the clock with local and international law enforcement agencies to track down the source of the DDoS.

“It is our understanding that, within a few days, authorities were able to successfully identify and arrest a suspect.”

Original article (published September 8th): Social media platform Twitter has shut down the account of someone claiming to have taken the World of Warcraft (WoW) servers offline this weekend.

Players were unable to login to both standard WoW and WoW Classic for parts of yesterday (Saturday September 7th) following a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

As well as WoW, it seems that Overwatch was also affected by the attack, with some users being booted from games and finding themselves unable to log back in. It looks like both EU and the US was affected.

Yesterday evening, WoW developer Blizzard Entertainment reported that the attack was over, though some users have reported downtime after this.

Blizzard added in a statement: “Today, Saturday, September 7, the World of Warcraft service has been negatively impacted by an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. For several hours today, we’ve repeatedly seen WoW realms targeted and taken offline by the attacker(s).

“It is our top priority to resolve any issues that prevent players from being able to smoothly play World of Warcraft. However, it is the nature of DDoS attacks that players may experience the game becoming unavailable. If you are disconnected or have issues logging in, please be patient and wait a few minutes before trying again.

“We will continue to work to address the situation. Thank you for your patience and understanding.”

A Twitter user or group going by the name of @UKDrillas took responsibility for the attack. This account has since been suspended by Twitter.

UKDrillas also attacked Wikipedia before turning their attention to Blizzard and World of Warcraft, as reported by Haaretz.com.

A DDoS attack is an attempt to flood a network with a string of requests in a short space of time, in an attempt to overload systems and bring down a website or other online service.

The community of course responded negatively towards the attacker, with some believing to track down the attacker’s Facebook page and other details.

Some attackers caught hitting World of Warcraft with DDoS attacks in the past have been sentenced to prison.

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