Battle.net Issues 8/24/2014 [Confirmed DDoS Attack]

Blizzard is continuing to experience issues after yesterday’s supposed DDoS attack.  Why “supposed”?  Read on for more information.

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UPDATE 10:27 PM Eastern: Blizzard Support Forum Agent Vrakthris confirmed it is a DDoS Attack:

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UPDATE 10:04 PM Eastern: Blizzard reports the services appear to be stabilizing at this time:

[NA - Update] Services appear to be stabilizing. We'll continue to keep an eye out. Queues should stabilize as more folks log back in.

— BlizzardCS (@BlizzardCS) August 25, 2014

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UPDATE 9:51 PM Eastern: American Airlines Flight 362 was diverted due to DDoS attack: (Bags being checked at airport)

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On 8/23/2014, a Tweet was released from the hacker group “Lizard Squad” stating the following:

We just got word that we caused all of BattleNet to die, can anyone confirm this?

— Lizard Squad (@LizardSquad) August 24, 2014

After a few hours of redirecting traffic, it appeared Blizzard had things under control.

On 8/24/2014, as of 9:07 PM Eastern (6:07PM Pacific), Battle.net issues resumed.  Although there is no word as of yet from Lizard Squad, Blizzard released the following statement:

[NA] Hey all, we are looking into the reported issues. We'll update as soon as we know more.

— BlizzardCS (@BlizzardCS) August 25, 2014

In addition, news has been surfacing within the past few minutes the FBI is now investigating the DDoS attack.  So, it is confirmed!  There is a DDoS attack in progress, and the FBI is investigating.

Please see http://www.shacknews.com/article/85951/blizzard-playstation-network-and-more-under-wide-ddos-attack-update-fbi-now-investigating for information on the investigation.

Updates to follow.