{"id":62990,"date":"2014-04-01T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62990"},"modified":"2014-04-01T13:22:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T11:22:16","slug":"blizzard-games-battle-net-hit-by-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62990-blizzard-games-battle-net-hit-by-ddos-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard games, Battle.net hit by DDoS attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard games\u00a0Diablo, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, and Hearthstone have all been affected by DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it&#8217;s investigating an issue affecting its authentication servers, which may result in failed or slow login attempts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diablo, World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Hearthstone players may be impacted by high latency and disconnections during their gaming experience that are the result of a series of DDoS attacks on certain European online services. Although Blizzard\u2019s infrastructure isn\u2019t targeted, the disruption effects rippled and have been felt by a portion of our players\u2019 population,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.battle.net\/support\/en\/blog\/11648061\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blizzard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been affected by the attacks? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62947-don-bradman-cricket-14-delayed-in-sa.html\">Don Bradman Cricket 14 delayed in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62926-gamers-arent-anti-social-study.html\">Gamers aren\u2019t anti-social: study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62913-sas-new-digital-games-tax-postponed.html\">SA\u2019s new digital games tax postponed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard is investigating issues affecting its authentication servers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":52145,"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":[2],"tags":[665,5252,3909,21,11962,635],"class_list":["post-62990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-blizzard","tag-ddos","tag-diablo","tag-headline","tag-hearthstone","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62990","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}