We can add League of Legends to the list of games being attacked by LulzSec. Its login servers were apparently targeted, also causing issues with the game's website. This appears to be the last attack of the day. A LulzSec tweet states, "And that concludes our DDoS party," before listing off the day's targets.Original Story: The wave of hacker attacks on videogame companies continues today. Hacker group LulzSec, which has gone after Nintendo, Bethesda, and Sony (albeit in a non-gaming capacity), among others, is claiming responsibility for new attacks on EVE Online, Minecraft, and gaming website The Escapist.
EVE Online is currently down, as announced on Twitter. It will return "ASAP after investigation of some issues." A subsequent tweet by EVE Online reads, "EVE Online and related services experienced an Internet attack. We have taken them down as a security precaution." According to the LulzSec Twitter account, the hackers' goal was to take down the game's login server and, in the process, it inadvertently knocked the official website down.
The login server for Minecraft was likewise targeted with the website temporarily becoming inaccessible as a side effect. (The site is back up as of this writing.) The Escapist was the first of the three gaming-related targets today; its websiteremains offline.
LulzSec's attacks haven't been confined entirely to the games industry -- today it briefly took down the website of IT company FinFisher and over the weekend it breached part of the United States Senate's website. It's also attacked government websites in other countries. The Pentagon declared late last month that cyber attacks could be considered an act of war, although it's unlikely these particular attacks would be deemed such a thing.
EVE Online is currently down, as announced on Twitter. It will return "ASAP after investigation of some issues." A subsequent tweet by EVE Online reads, "EVE Online and related services experienced an Internet attack. We have taken them down as a security precaution." According to the LulzSec Twitter account, the hackers' goal was to take down the game's login server and, in the process, it inadvertently knocked the official website down.
LulzSec's attacks haven't been confined entirely to the games industry -- today it briefly took down the website of IT company FinFisher and over the weekend it breached part of the United States Senate's website. It's also attacked government websites in other countries. The Pentagon declared late last month that cyber attacks could be considered an act of war, although it's unlikely these particular attacks would be deemed such a thing.
