{"id":124368,"date":"2022-03-28T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T06:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124368"},"modified":"2022-03-28T08:56:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T06:56:47","slug":"among-us-servers-go-down-after-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124368-among-us-servers-go-down-after-ddos-attack","title":{"rendered":"Among Us servers go down after DDOS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, the European and North American servers of the popular multiplayer game Among US suffered a DDOS attack.<\/p>\n<p>Developer InnerSloth worked over the weekend to restore the servers and contain the attack \u2013 servers were intermittently active during this time, as indicated on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">servers are still down while we work to fix the DDoS sabotage<\/p>\n<p>they may come on\/off but will update u when we think they&#8217;re stable, sorry!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vMmb74ttbJ\">pic.twitter.com\/vMmb74ttbJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Among Us \ud83d\udea8 servers maybe ok now? (@AmongUsGame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmongUsGame\/status\/1507800284034056196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As of the time of writing, the official Twitter account of Among Us has updated players by writing &#8220;servers maybe ok now&#8221; on its Twitter profile<\/p>\n<p>This attack is not the first such incident, as Among Us suffered a similar incident in 2020 due to a hack conducted by an individual named Eris Loris, which saw nearly 5 million players impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Though unfortunate, the current DDOS attack has only impacted EU and NA servers, so those playing on other servers should not have been affected.<\/p>\n<p>Innersloth has indicated that it will keep players updated on the status of the servers and the attack.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124347-skyblivion-the-oblivion-remaster-bethesda-never-made\">Skyblivion \u2013 The Oblivion Remaster Bethesda never made<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, the European and North American servers of the popular multiplayer game Among US suffered a DDOS attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":124370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,11681,4],"tags":[25945,25947,19651,25948,25946],"class_list":["post-124368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-among-us","tag-ddos-attack","tag-eu","tag-na","tag-servers-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}