Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-12-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Steam
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Phantom Squad; @cripthepoodle
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The DDoS attackers from Phantom Squad have claimed responsibility for conducting a series of powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) on Steam and online gaming platform Origin servers.