Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-01-03 00:00:00
Affected organization: Battle.net
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: DERP Trolling
Actor type: Undetermined
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The servers for Steam, Origin, Battle.net, and League of Legends are brought down temporarily by apparent DDoS attacks that seem to be related to a swatting attack on an individual known for streaming games.