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Ubisoft’s Servers Have Been Down For Several Hours, Could Be DDoS

Since early this morning gamers have reported server issues when playing Ubisoft games across all platforms. Ubisoft Support has confirmed the problem, sharing that it is affecting all its services, including its digital shop and official website. Ubisoft has provided the  following updates  regarding the issue: [12:44PM EDT]  We are still looking into this issue. We appreciate your understanding in the meantime.? [1:12PM EDT] Our shop and websites are also affected by this issue. We are still investigating further. Thank you for your patience thus far. Although for some of Ubisoft’s games this is a mere inconvenience, multiplayer-oriented games are currently unplayable. This has resulted in thousands of posts on Twitter directed at Ubisoft, requesting when the problem will be fixed. There is currently no ETA. It is unclear what the root cause of the issue is, although this type of problem usually happens due to DDoS.  Source: http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/ubisofts-servers-have-been-down-for-several-hours-could-be-ddos-37913

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123-Reg drowns in ongoing DDoS tsunami

Data centre target of attack of 30+ Gbps Beleaguered web host 123-Reg has suffered a “huge scale” distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to its data centre – knocking the Brit outfit’s website offline and a number of users’ services. The attack began this morning and is still ongoing but no performance-related issues have been reported since the traffic was rerouted. The Register understands that the outfit experienced a DDoS attack of 30-plus Gbps to its data centre, with its protection systems kicking in within seconds of the attack being detected. Consequently the business redirected traffic through its secondary “DDoS protection platform” in Germany, which doubled its capacity. No servers were offline, although customers experienced intermittent connection issues such as our website, control panel, email or websites. A 123-Reg spokeswoman said: “At about 10:10am we received a huge scale DDoS attack to our data centre. “Our protection systems kicked in immediately and the attack was contained by 10:40am. We apologise for any intermittent connection issues to our services that some of our customers may have experienced during this time.” Back in November, internet provider Eclipse was hit by a DDoS attack. ® Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/02/123reg_suffers/

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