The official site of Sega "Phantasy Star Online 2" was closed due to DDoS attack, game server also stopped

On Thursday 19th June (Thursday) at 19:15 "On Network Failure by Attack from Third PartyBy saying that "Fantasy Star Online 2"On the official website of PSO 2" The cause of this failure is known as a DDoS attack targeting our server group by an unspecified third party.This characteristic clearly makes it to our network equipment and service It is judged that it is a malicious attack on the offensive ", but finally the hand of offense has been closed on the official website, and it has closed.

This site is currently being maintained
http://pso2.jp/


History so far is "it-tells announcement community" is gathered in chronological order. An announcement that it is difficult to connect to the server is issued on 2014/06/19 18:12 and further on 2014/06/19 20:41 "the connection failure currently occurring is DDoS by unspecified third party In addition, at 20:44, a notice of "temporarily stopping the service of" PSO 2 "now due to a DDoS attack by an unspecified third party", and at 2014/06/20 09:13 by "third party Since the DDoS attack was also started on the "PSO 2" official website, the official website is temporarily temporarily suspended. "

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Most recently it is the largest offering RSS reader on June 11When feedly receives a DDoS attack and is required for ransom, it restores without giving up,Similarly Evernote received a DDoS attack but restoreddoing.

Incidentally,Analysis of Arbor NetworksAccording to the situation, the scale of DDoS attacks that occurred in a row has reached 400 Gbps, and there are not many cases when it is aimed at a server that does not have much preparation.

Let's look back at the state of PSO 2 right after starting service here# PSO 2Pic.twitter.com/tYTr1OGvB4

- Rounge (@ toshi_renaissa)2014, June 19

· 2014/06 / 20 14:46 additional recording

On the official blog "About this time, in an unstable situation that continues to receive the current attack, we have suspended the service, giving top priority to protecting valuable data of everyone.In everyone's play data There is no problem so please rest assured that it will take time to restart, but we will always restart the service and we will continue to manage "PSO 2" which is an important place of everyone, so now for a while Please wait "announcement has been issued.

Suspended service situation and PS Thanksgiving 2014 Osaka held | Phantasy Star Series Official Blog
http://ameblo.jp/sega-psblog/entry-11880956031.html

· Additional notes

【Follow-up report】 We have taken various measures to restart the service, but it is not possible to tell the timing of restart. Once we receive your time we will let you know the situation again at 6pm (Monday) at 14:00. Please see the image for details. Sorry.# PSO 2Pic.twitter.com/heu7f8iFlH

- PhantasyStarOnline 2 (@ sega_pso 2)2014, June 20

· 2014/06/24 17:43 added

[Continued] Although the attack continues intermittently, some temporary measures were taken and the official website of "PSO 2" was opened around 6/24 (Tue) around 15:00.# PSO 2http://t.co/ATyZDTj07zPic.twitter.com/uboKWziJ36

- PhantasyStarOnline 2 (@ sega_pso 2)2014, June 24

· 2014/06/26 18:14 postscript

[Continued] We are preparing for resuming services during June. For details, please check here.http://t.co/mW3SsPTIB7# PSO 2Pic.twitter.com/TV9I5GWGwL

- PhantasyStarOnline 2 (@ sega_pso 2)2014, June 26