Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-06-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: Blizzard's Battle.net
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Lizard Squad
Actor type: Undetermined
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Blizzard's Battle.net experiences an outage, leaving players unable to log in to popular games such as Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft due to an alleged DDoS attack. Notorious hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for the latest atttack.