DDoS Attacks Hit Blizzard Over The Weekend, Several WoW Classic Realms Affected - MMORPG.com

System · September 2019

DDoS Attacks Hit Blizzard Over The Weekend, Several WoW Classic Realms Affected - MMORPG.com

Over the weekend it might have been a struggle to play WoW Classic, or any Blizzard game for that matter. Blizzard's services were disrupted thanks to massive DDoS attacks which hit the servers Saturday and Sunday.

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fcwedd · September 2019

Seriously. Why do people do this? Disgusting human beings.

Patsilver · September 2019

The people doing this think it's funny right up until that knock on the door.

OGDeathRow · September 2019

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Kyleran · September 2019

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

Amathe · September 2019

Patsilver said:

The people doing this think it's funny right up until that knock on the door.

I doubt they knock. More like the splintering of wood as the door explodes into pieces.

OGDeathRow · September 2019

Kyleran said:

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

I agree, never said I was giggling. Im talking about the hacker, if they wanna test there skills or w/e, and this doesnt actually do harm (if they were to do it 1 time just to say they can do it) since its just a pause to peoples entertainment. I played games that had DDOS attacks and felt that annoyance, but at the end of the day no one got hurt.

When I said "nothing wrong with it", that was my mistake. What I ment was that it doesnt bother me, not that its ok for them to do it. The people that do it with hate, and spamming it, totally love seeing them locked up.

Interruptions of services happens, with power outtages/maintenances/server crashes, to me its just another notch on the list.

I mean, hacking is a valueable tool in our world today. I would bet hacking has saved millions of lives due to goverments being able to stop some terror before it happens. Yes it gets miss used, but its an art like anything else that has to do with creativity.

Wizardry · September 2019

I highly doubt a DDOS,it would show an extreme level of incompetence.
Furthermore,according to the many security businesses,DDOS are on the rise but for "financial" gains and not just to be annoying.
Example used for crypto mining.

FTR,i did feel problems within Hearthstone but not of a DDOS nature,it simply felt like overloaded servers which could happen to any game on the weekend.

So a giant like Cloudfare can thwart tons and tons of overwhelming DDOS traffic,$200 a month,you think Blizzard can't afford 200 a month...pffft.Then on top of that ,the software would within minutes depending on how complicated,start to block IP;s and from various regions which of course nail down the hackers used IP traffic within minutes.

So to me everything does not add up,either Blizzard is incredibly cheap and doesn't care or incredibly stupid.You see a DDOS is not going to cost Blizzard anything this past weekend,it simply disrupts service for a couple days.However if the attackers really were out there trying to cause issues,they would have done it on vanilla release day a week ago,so even the timing seems out of place.

Hashbrick · September 2019

OGDeathRow said:

Kyleran said:

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

I agree, never said I was giggling. Im talking about the hacker, if they wanna test there skills or w/e, and this doesnt actually do harm (if they were to do it 1 time just to say they can do it) since its just a pause to peoples entertainment. I played games that had DDOS attacks and felt that annoyance, but at the end of the day no one got hurt.

When I said "nothing wrong with it", that was my mistake. What I ment was that it doesnt bother me, not that its ok for them to do it. The people that do it with hate, and spamming it, totally love seeing them locked up.

Interruptions of services happens, with power outtages/maintenances/server crashes, to me its just another notch on the list.

I mean, hacking is a valueable tool in our world today. I would bet hacking has saved millions of lives due to goverments being able to stop some terror before it happens. Yes it gets miss used, but its an art like anything else that has to do with creativity.

All that is dandy and all except we aren't dealing with hackers here we are dealing with teenagers that bought or downloaded a tool that DDOS's a server. There is no "hacker" here just a bunch of fuck wits.

alkarionlog · September 2019

Hashbrick said:

OGDeathRow said:

Kyleran said:

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

I agree, never said I was giggling. Im talking about the hacker, if they wanna test there skills or w/e, and this doesnt actually do harm (if they were to do it 1 time just to say they can do it) since its just a pause to peoples entertainment. I played games that had DDOS attacks and felt that annoyance, but at the end of the day no one got hurt.

When I said "nothing wrong with it", that was my mistake. What I ment was that it doesnt bother me, not that its ok for them to do it. The people that do it with hate, and spamming it, totally love seeing them locked up.

Interruptions of services happens, with power outtages/maintenances/server crashes, to me its just another notch on the list.

I mean, hacking is a valueable tool in our world today. I would bet hacking has saved millions of lives due to goverments being able to stop some terror before it happens. Yes it gets miss used, but its an art like anything else that has to do with creativity.

All that is dandy and all except we aren't dealing with hackers here we are dealing with teenagers that bought or downloaded a tool that DDOS's a server. There is no "hacker" here just a bunch of fuck wits.

you know that saying that you only state then blizzard are full of idiots who can't stop kids from messin they servers right?

also tell me when was WoW not DDoS? tis so used to that they should already know how to prevent such, same way a DDoS is easy to be made it is easy to stop.

plus I don't doubt it was a player who used such to get back at someone

Hashbrick · September 2019

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

OGDeathRow said:

Kyleran said:

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

I agree, never said I was giggling. Im talking about the hacker, if they wanna test there skills or w/e, and this doesnt actually do harm (if they were to do it 1 time just to say they can do it) since its just a pause to peoples entertainment. I played games that had DDOS attacks and felt that annoyance, but at the end of the day no one got hurt.

When I said "nothing wrong with it", that was my mistake. What I ment was that it doesnt bother me, not that its ok for them to do it. The people that do it with hate, and spamming it, totally love seeing them locked up.

Interruptions of services happens, with power outtages/maintenances/server crashes, to me its just another notch on the list.

I mean, hacking is a valueable tool in our world today. I would bet hacking has saved millions of lives due to goverments being able to stop some terror before it happens. Yes it gets miss used, but its an art like anything else that has to do with creativity.

All that is dandy and all except we aren't dealing with hackers here we are dealing with teenagers that bought or downloaded a tool that DDOS's a server. There is no "hacker" here just a bunch of fuck wits.

you know that saying that you only state then blizzard are full of idiots who can't stop kids from messin they servers right?

also tell me when was WoW not DDoS? tis so used to that they should already know how to prevent such, same way a DDoS is easy to be made it is easy to stop.

plus I don't doubt it was a player who used such to get back at someone

DDOS isn't something you can just "fix", you can try to prevent it using ip blockers and other software but because the internet is a protocol and accepts requests you can still be DDOSed.

It seems you are unaware of what this type of attack is. It can be anything, it just needs to overload the server, it can hit a page or function or image over and over and over again until the server can't handle the requests and if they are constant requests in all different ips, nothing can help you. Cloudflare and other sites as such only work by region banning and it's not fixing the problem it's stagnating it. Basically if you are open to the public, in some form or fashion you are susceptible to a DDOS attack.

alkarionlog · September 2019

Hashbrick said:

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

OGDeathRow said:

Kyleran said:

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

I agree, never said I was giggling. Im talking about the hacker, if they wanna test there skills or w/e, and this doesnt actually do harm (if they were to do it 1 time just to say they can do it) since its just a pause to peoples entertainment. I played games that had DDOS attacks and felt that annoyance, but at the end of the day no one got hurt.

When I said "nothing wrong with it", that was my mistake. What I ment was that it doesnt bother me, not that its ok for them to do it. The people that do it with hate, and spamming it, totally love seeing them locked up.

Interruptions of services happens, with power outtages/maintenances/server crashes, to me its just another notch on the list.

I mean, hacking is a valueable tool in our world today. I would bet hacking has saved millions of lives due to goverments being able to stop some terror before it happens. Yes it gets miss used, but its an art like anything else that has to do with creativity.

All that is dandy and all except we aren't dealing with hackers here we are dealing with teenagers that bought or downloaded a tool that DDOS's a server. There is no "hacker" here just a bunch of fuck wits.

you know that saying that you only state then blizzard are full of idiots who can't stop kids from messin they servers right?

also tell me when was WoW not DDoS? tis so used to that they should already know how to prevent such, same way a DDoS is easy to be made it is easy to stop.

plus I don't doubt it was a player who used such to get back at someone

DDOS isn't something you can just "fix", you can try to prevent it using ip blockers and other software but because the internet is a protocol and accepts requests you can still be DDOSed.

It seems you are unaware of what this type of attack is. It can be anything, it just needs to overload the server, it can hit a page or function or image over and over and over again until the server can't handle the requests and if they are constant requests in all different ips, nothing can help you. Cloudflare and other sites as such only work by region banning and it's not fixing the problem it's stagnating it. Basically if you are open to the public, in some form or fashion you are susceptible to a DDOS attack.

I know very well what it is, but if was a kid doing so its easy to prevent, it hard to prevent a lets call it a comercial one, who the point of origin can't be tracked since its from almost everywhere, hence why I said if a kid can mess with the servers the problem here is more blizzard then the kid

Hashbrick · September 2019

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

OGDeathRow said:

Kyleran said:

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

I agree, never said I was giggling. Im talking about the hacker, if they wanna test there skills or w/e, and this doesnt actually do harm (if they were to do it 1 time just to say they can do it) since its just a pause to peoples entertainment. I played games that had DDOS attacks and felt that annoyance, but at the end of the day no one got hurt.

When I said "nothing wrong with it", that was my mistake. What I ment was that it doesnt bother me, not that its ok for them to do it. The people that do it with hate, and spamming it, totally love seeing them locked up.

Interruptions of services happens, with power outtages/maintenances/server crashes, to me its just another notch on the list.

I mean, hacking is a valueable tool in our world today. I would bet hacking has saved millions of lives due to goverments being able to stop some terror before it happens. Yes it gets miss used, but its an art like anything else that has to do with creativity.

All that is dandy and all except we aren't dealing with hackers here we are dealing with teenagers that bought or downloaded a tool that DDOS's a server. There is no "hacker" here just a bunch of fuck wits.

you know that saying that you only state then blizzard are full of idiots who can't stop kids from messin they servers right?

also tell me when was WoW not DDoS? tis so used to that they should already know how to prevent such, same way a DDoS is easy to be made it is easy to stop.

plus I don't doubt it was a player who used such to get back at someone

DDOS isn't something you can just "fix", you can try to prevent it using ip blockers and other software but because the internet is a protocol and accepts requests you can still be DDOSed.

It seems you are unaware of what this type of attack is. It can be anything, it just needs to overload the server, it can hit a page or function or image over and over and over again until the server can't handle the requests and if they are constant requests in all different ips, nothing can help you. Cloudflare and other sites as such only work by region banning and it's not fixing the problem it's stagnating it. Basically if you are open to the public, in some form or fashion you are susceptible to a DDOS attack.

I know very well what it is, but if was a kid doing so its easy to prevent, it hard to prevent a lets call it a comercial one, who the point of origin can't be tracked since its from almost everywhere, hence why I said if a kid can mess with the servers the problem here is more blizzard then the kid

Sorry I wasn't aware a kid couldn't buy or download a software to do it... like I originally said in my original post...

Theocritus · September 2019

fcwedd said:

Seriously. Why do people do this? Disgusting human beings.

I think we need extremely stronger laws against this, treating them as a felony...To me it is the same as stealing. THey cause massive amounts of damage and cost companies millions of dollars sometimes.

Utinni · September 2019

Hashbrick said:

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

OGDeathRow said:

Kyleran said:

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

I agree, never said I was giggling. Im talking about the hacker, if they wanna test there skills or w/e, and this doesnt actually do harm (if they were to do it 1 time just to say they can do it) since its just a pause to peoples entertainment. I played games that had DDOS attacks and felt that annoyance, but at the end of the day no one got hurt.

When I said "nothing wrong with it", that was my mistake. What I ment was that it doesnt bother me, not that its ok for them to do it. The people that do it with hate, and spamming it, totally love seeing them locked up.

Interruptions of services happens, with power outtages/maintenances/server crashes, to me its just another notch on the list.

I mean, hacking is a valueable tool in our world today. I would bet hacking has saved millions of lives due to goverments being able to stop some terror before it happens. Yes it gets miss used, but its an art like anything else that has to do with creativity.

All that is dandy and all except we aren't dealing with hackers here we are dealing with teenagers that bought or downloaded a tool that DDOS's a server. There is no "hacker" here just a bunch of fuck wits.

you know that saying that you only state then blizzard are full of idiots who can't stop kids from messin they servers right?

also tell me when was WoW not DDoS? tis so used to that they should already know how to prevent such, same way a DDoS is easy to be made it is easy to stop.

plus I don't doubt it was a player who used such to get back at someone

DDOS isn't something you can just "fix", you can try to prevent it using ip blockers and other software but because the internet is a protocol and accepts requests you can still be DDOSed.

It seems you are unaware of what this type of attack is. It can be anything, it just needs to overload the server, it can hit a page or function or image over and over and over again until the server can't handle the requests and if they are constant requests in all different ips, nothing can help you. Cloudflare and other sites as such only work by region banning and it's not fixing the problem it's stagnating it. Basically if you are open to the public, in some form or fashion you are susceptible to a DDOS attack.

I know very well what it is, but if was a kid doing so its easy to prevent, it hard to prevent a lets call it a comercial one, who the point of origin can't be tracked since its from almost everywhere, hence why I said if a kid can mess with the servers the problem here is more blizzard then the kid

Sorry I wasn't aware a kid couldn't buy or download a software to do it... like I originally said in my original post...

I wasn't aware that the age/location of the person responsible had been determined!

alkarionlog · September 2019

Theocritus said:

fcwedd said:

Seriously. Why do people do this? Disgusting human beings.

I think we need extremely stronger laws against this, treating them as a felony...To me it is the same as stealing. THey cause massive amounts of damage and cost companies millions of dollars sometimes.

and then he lives far outside us then you guys can't touch, your laws means little if the other country don't care

Mendel · September 2019

Amathe said:

Patsilver said:

The people doing this think it's funny right up until that knock on the door.

I doubt they knock. More like the splintering of wood as the door explodes into pieces.

There's not much chance of splintering or knocking. These types of attacks will continue until the perpetrators are prosecuted. Sadly, that doesn't happen far enough. When it does, a legitimate company will hire the criminal and give them a nice cushy job. So much for business ethics.

rensta · September 2019

It's pretty obvious blizzard is ddosing itself, so it can excuse laggs and server downtime until population dies down a bit. pretty much text book move.

Demuerte · September 2019

rensta said:

It's pretty obvious blizzard is ddosing itself, so it can excuse laggs and server downtime until population dies down a bit. pretty much text book move.

Would you mind sharing some of what you are smoking with the rest of us?

Hashbrick · September 2019

Utinni said:

Hashbrick said:

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

OGDeathRow said:

Kyleran said:

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

I agree, never said I was giggling. Im talking about the hacker, if they wanna test there skills or w/e, and this doesnt actually do harm (if they were to do it 1 time just to say they can do it) since its just a pause to peoples entertainment. I played games that had DDOS attacks and felt that annoyance, but at the end of the day no one got hurt.

When I said "nothing wrong with it", that was my mistake. What I ment was that it doesnt bother me, not that its ok for them to do it. The people that do it with hate, and spamming it, totally love seeing them locked up.

Interruptions of services happens, with power outtages/maintenances/server crashes, to me its just another notch on the list.

I mean, hacking is a valueable tool in our world today. I would bet hacking has saved millions of lives due to goverments being able to stop some terror before it happens. Yes it gets miss used, but its an art like anything else that has to do with creativity.

All that is dandy and all except we aren't dealing with hackers here we are dealing with teenagers that bought or downloaded a tool that DDOS's a server. There is no "hacker" here just a bunch of fuck wits.

you know that saying that you only state then blizzard are full of idiots who can't stop kids from messin they servers right?

also tell me when was WoW not DDoS? tis so used to that they should already know how to prevent such, same way a DDoS is easy to be made it is easy to stop.

plus I don't doubt it was a player who used such to get back at someone

DDOS isn't something you can just "fix", you can try to prevent it using ip blockers and other software but because the internet is a protocol and accepts requests you can still be DDOSed.

It seems you are unaware of what this type of attack is. It can be anything, it just needs to overload the server, it can hit a page or function or image over and over and over again until the server can't handle the requests and if they are constant requests in all different ips, nothing can help you. Cloudflare and other sites as such only work by region banning and it's not fixing the problem it's stagnating it. Basically if you are open to the public, in some form or fashion you are susceptible to a DDOS attack.

I know very well what it is, but if was a kid doing so its easy to prevent, it hard to prevent a lets call it a comercial one, who the point of origin can't be tracked since its from almost everywhere, hence why I said if a kid can mess with the servers the problem here is more blizzard then the kid

Sorry I wasn't aware a kid couldn't buy or download a software to do it... like I originally said in my original post...

I wasn't aware that the age/location of the person responsible had been determined!

I hypothesized it was probably a teenager, but the poster quoting me kept saying kid and apparently in his mind a kid can't download software to DDOS.

alkarionlog · September 2019

Hashbrick said:

Utinni said:

Hashbrick said:

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

OGDeathRow said:

Kyleran said:

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

I agree, never said I was giggling. Im talking about the hacker, if they wanna test there skills or w/e, and this doesnt actually do harm (if they were to do it 1 time just to say they can do it) since its just a pause to peoples entertainment. I played games that had DDOS attacks and felt that annoyance, but at the end of the day no one got hurt.

When I said "nothing wrong with it", that was my mistake. What I ment was that it doesnt bother me, not that its ok for them to do it. The people that do it with hate, and spamming it, totally love seeing them locked up.

Interruptions of services happens, with power outtages/maintenances/server crashes, to me its just another notch on the list.

I mean, hacking is a valueable tool in our world today. I would bet hacking has saved millions of lives due to goverments being able to stop some terror before it happens. Yes it gets miss used, but its an art like anything else that has to do with creativity.

All that is dandy and all except we aren't dealing with hackers here we are dealing with teenagers that bought or downloaded a tool that DDOS's a server. There is no "hacker" here just a bunch of fuck wits.

you know that saying that you only state then blizzard are full of idiots who can't stop kids from messin they servers right?

also tell me when was WoW not DDoS? tis so used to that they should already know how to prevent such, same way a DDoS is easy to be made it is easy to stop.

plus I don't doubt it was a player who used such to get back at someone

DDOS isn't something you can just "fix", you can try to prevent it using ip blockers and other software but because the internet is a protocol and accepts requests you can still be DDOSed.

It seems you are unaware of what this type of attack is. It can be anything, it just needs to overload the server, it can hit a page or function or image over and over and over again until the server can't handle the requests and if they are constant requests in all different ips, nothing can help you. Cloudflare and other sites as such only work by region banning and it's not fixing the problem it's stagnating it. Basically if you are open to the public, in some form or fashion you are susceptible to a DDOS attack.

I know very well what it is, but if was a kid doing so its easy to prevent, it hard to prevent a lets call it a comercial one, who the point of origin can't be tracked since its from almost everywhere, hence why I said if a kid can mess with the servers the problem here is more blizzard then the kid

Sorry I wasn't aware a kid couldn't buy or download a software to do it... like I originally said in my original post...

I wasn't aware that the age/location of the person responsible had been determined!

I hypothesized it was probably a teenager, but the poster quoting me kept saying kid and apparently in his mind a kid can't download software to DDOS.

a kid can, but if he can bring down a company down alone, then the problem is not the kid, taht is what i'm saying, but you are so hung up on your post then can't even think

Hashbrick · September 2019

alkarionlog said:

a kid can, but if he can bring down a company down alone, then the problem is not the kid, taht is what i'm saying, but you are so hung up on your post then can't even think

It's a tool, the "kid" is doing nothing but clicking a button. It has nothing to do with any intelligence or "how weak" a system is. If tool has a bot net with tens of thousands of IP pools. GOOD LUCK!

BeansnBread · September 2019

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

Utinni said:

Hashbrick said:

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

alkarionlog said:

Hashbrick said:

OGDeathRow said:

Kyleran said:

OGDeathRow said:

Could be paid too. Conspiracy can happen anywhere!

Seriously tho, if its for giggles, do it 1 time to a company just to sya you got em, nothing wrong with it. But repeated, not cool.

Do it one time and you should do 5 years....repeated increase by 5 yrs per attack.

Cybercrime is no laughing matter.

I agree, never said I was giggling. Im talking about the hacker, if they wanna test there skills or w/e, and this doesnt actually do harm (if they were to do it 1 time just to say they can do it) since its just a pause to peoples entertainment. I played games that had DDOS attacks and felt that annoyance, but at the end of the day no one got hurt.

When I said "nothing wrong with it", that was my mistake. What I ment was that it doesnt bother me, not that its ok for them to do it. The people that do it with hate, and spamming it, totally love seeing them locked up.

Interruptions of services happens, with power outtages/maintenances/server crashes, to me its just another notch on the list.

I mean, hacking is a valueable tool in our world today. I would bet hacking has saved millions of lives due to goverments being able to stop some terror before it happens. Yes it gets miss used, but its an art like anything else that has to do with creativity.

All that is dandy and all except we aren't dealing with hackers here we are dealing with teenagers that bought or downloaded a tool that DDOS's a server. There is no "hacker" here just a bunch of fuck wits.

you know that saying that you only state then blizzard are full of idiots who can't stop kids from messin they servers right?

also tell me when was WoW not DDoS? tis so used to that they should already know how to prevent such, same way a DDoS is easy to be made it is easy to stop.

plus I don't doubt it was a player who used such to get back at someone

DDOS isn't something you can just "fix", you can try to prevent it using ip blockers and other software but because the internet is a protocol and accepts requests you can still be DDOSed.

It seems you are unaware of what this type of attack is. It can be anything, it just needs to overload the server, it can hit a page or function or image over and over and over again until the server can't handle the requests and if they are constant requests in all different ips, nothing can help you. Cloudflare and other sites as such only work by region banning and it's not fixing the problem it's stagnating it. Basically if you are open to the public, in some form or fashion you are susceptible to a DDOS attack.

I know very well what it is, but if was a kid doing so its easy to prevent, it hard to prevent a lets call it a comercial one, who the point of origin can't be tracked since its from almost everywhere, hence why I said if a kid can mess with the servers the problem here is more blizzard then the kid

Sorry I wasn't aware a kid couldn't buy or download a software to do it... like I originally said in my original post...

I wasn't aware that the age/location of the person responsible had been determined!

I hypothesized it was probably a teenager, but the poster quoting me kept saying kid and apparently in his mind a kid can't download software to DDOS.

a kid can, but if he can bring down a company down alone, then the problem is not the kid, taht is what i'm saying, but you are so hung up on your post then can't even think

It's difficult to articulate how ignorant this is. Stop pretending you know anything about this. I have little experience with it, but watching you comment on it is embarrassing.

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DDoS Attacks Hit Blizzard Over The Weekend, Several WoW Classic Realms Affected - MMORPG.com

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