Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-08-15 00:00:00
Affected organization: Blizzard Entertainment
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The web servers of Blizzard Entertainment suffer a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.