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PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks By Taking Down EA Servers (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on from the bad-childhoods dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The hacking crew was not kidding about their Christmas DDoS attacks on Xbox & PSN. This morning the group started warmup attacks on the EA network, taking it down for 3 hours. The attacks were severe enough to take down the network completely, and EA issued apologies on its Twitter account. Phantom Squad is now carrying out DDoS attacks on PSN. Users started reporting outages in small areas around the world.

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  1. as they should by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 2, Funny

    EA issue apologies on its Twitter account

    it's about time! have you seen what they do to game series'? now what's all this business about DDoS attacks? ;)

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  2. Re:Refresh my memory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is pretty sexist. It can be a girl in mom's basement that is doing this too!