Two of the gaming world’s biggest properties battled major outages on Wednesday, as Blizzard’s World of Warcraft was slammed by a distributed denial of service attack, while EA’s Battlefield 1 suffered a suspected DDoS thrashing.
Players hoping to take part in the online-only beta of EA’s forthcoming World War I shooter Battlefield 1 were left frustrated for most of the day after the servers went down, preventing people from logging in. Blizzard, meanwhile, experienced difficulties of its own, confirming that it was being targeted by a sustained DDoS attack seemingly timed to coincide with the release of Legion, the World of Warcraft expansion.
It is unclear, however, whether the two attacks are linked.
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Source: Ars Technica – WoW: Legion, Battlefield 1 beta suffer launch-day outages