The hackers collective Lizard Squad has disrupted a series of EA and Activision servers in the past two weeks, according to Forbes.
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack seems to have temporarily taken down popular titles such as EA’s FIFA, Madden and Sims 4, as well as Activision’s Destiny and Call of Duty: Ghosts.
We’re predicting a lot of mad gamers this weekend,” the hackers tweeted.”Woah, I think there are some Ghosts haunting Destiny,” they said on Twitter two days after.
Destiny was hit worst, as all its functionality relies on live servers. Others, such as the FIFA series, Madden and Call of Duty, have offline or single player campaign modes.
The Lizard Squad is well known for the taking down Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network, but the group recently attracted the FBI’s attention after tweeting a bomb threat against Sony’s executive. The American Airlines flight was grounded, leading a national hackers’ manhunt.
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