Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-08-03 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: PoodleCorp
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Blizzard's Battle.net servers are hit by a massive DDoS attack causing latency, connection and login issues across popular games such as Overwatch, World of Warcraft and Hearthstone.