Hacker group "Phantom Squad" performs Christmas DDoS attack on online game

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On online gaming network on Christmas dayDDoS attackA group of hackers who had predicted to doPhantom Squad"It seems that the attack actually went down, a situation where the server of electronic art (EA) which seems to have been attacked temporarily goes down has occurred.

Phantom Squad Starts Christmas DDoS Attacks by Taking Down EA Servers
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Phantom Squad announced on the Christmas Eve at around 17 o'clock that it was his own account, "Today is a big day, XBL (Xbox Live) and PSN will be down!"

Today's the big day. XBL & PSN servers will be down! RT for servers to stay up!

- Phantom Squad (@ PhantomRoot)2015, December 24

Electronic Arts (EA), which seems to have been affected, announced the situation of trouble on Twitter at 23:30 on Christmas Eve. I was murmuring how I was working on restoring access faults.

Apologies for the inconvenience. We are working hard to resolve log in and connection issues which are currently affecting many game titles.

- EA Support (@ AskEASupport)2015, December 24

It seems that access trouble was occurring even at the time of 0 o'clock on the 25th when the day changed.

EA games, services & amp; support may be impacted. We have working to resolve as fast as possible.

- EA Support (@ AskEASupport)2015, December 24

The trouble seemed to be solved after 1 o'clock, and recovery was announced at 1:13 tweet.

EA games & amp; services are available. Support wait times may still be impacted. For 1x1 assistance, please contact us:https://t.co/5ruQb6pQ7D

- EA Support (@ AskEASupport)2015, December 24

It seems that access trouble was diffused even by tweets of users. In the following tweets, screens that could not connect to the server are tweeted.

@ RealPhantomRaid@ Phantomsquad69PSN servers are offlinePic.twitter.com/TBH2N9qdVc

- Danish Khan (@ BruvFollowMe)2015, December 24

The relationship with Phantom Squad is unknown, but in Japan it is also announced that access trouble occurred around 20:20 on December 24th and the next 25th at 8:18 am.

"PlayStation Network" Disaster recovery guidance December 24, 2015 20: 20 ~https://t.co/9S53UybLI7

- PSN failure / maintenance information (@ psn_jp_status)2015, December 25

It should be noted, it is also a failure occurs in the early morning of December 18 in Xbox Live, which will Phantom Squad had put out a crime statement. The actual relevance is unknown, Phantom Squad has launched an attack at around 18 days 7, it has announced that it has stopped the attack around 9:00.

It is unknown what the Phantom Squad attacked for. Twitter accounts are murmuring content "Xbox and PSN need better security;]".

Xbox / PSN need better security;)

- Phantom Squad (@ Real Phantom Raid)2015, December 25