According to reports on Kotaku, in two separate claims of responsibility, “hackers” have taken down both Steam and Origin services.<\/p>\n
The attacks appear to be in the form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), which isn’t hacking as such, but still a pretty effective and annoying way to bring down online services.<\/p>\n
In the case of Origin, group DERP (who also claim responsibility for bringing down Battle.net and League of Legends last week), are apparently behind the attack.<\/p>\n
EA Support didn’t go so far as to admit they were hit with a cyber-attack, but did tweet that they are working on connectivity and login issues affecting various platforms and games.<\/p>\n
The claims behind Steam’s outage are a bit more dubious, with a pair of Twitter users claiming responsibility and posting pictures of the infamous Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) DDoS tool.<\/p>\n
At this point, Valve has not communicated anything regarding the issues, but Steam services such as the store and community are very much offline.<\/p>\n
Has your gaming been affected by the supposed hacks on these gaming services? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n
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