Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-07-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Square Enix
Affected country: Japan
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: Square Enix attributes the connectivity issues that have plagued Final Fantasy 14's Stormblood expansion since its release in June on continuous distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks from a third party.