Blizzard - Battle.Net Suffering Slowdowns

Thanks to PC Gamer I found news that the Battle.netauthentication servers are suffering major slowdown, and as of now the cause is unknown. Here are the details.

If you've tried to play Hearthstone or World of Warcraft today, you've likely run into a Battle.net login queue that's a lot longer than you're used to. Blizzard says it's aware that something is amiss, and is now investigating the cause of the trouble.

Reports of overlong Hearthstone queues turned up earlier today on Reddit, where users complained of wait times of 15 minutes or more. Several posters suggested the problem bears the hallmarks of a DDoS attack, and while Blizzard hasn't acknowledged that this is the case, the "maintenance alert" message on Battle.net suggests that something untoward is happening.

"We’re aware of an issue that is affecting our authentication servers, which may result in failed or slow login attempts," it says. "We’re currently investigating the cause and will provide updates as they’re available."

One possible scenario is that this is another attack by "Lizard Squad," the group that brought so much grief to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network users over the holidays. It carried out a prior DDoS attack against Battle.net and other services in August 2014, when it also (and more famously) used a fake bomb threat to divert an American Airlines flight carrying Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley.

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So can anyone confirm this is happening especially those playing Dialo III? If it's another DDoS attack then it wouldn't be the first time a group did this.

I don't play Diablo 3 much right now, but I have it installed. I tried logging in just now and I had no troubling doing that and joining a game. So if there was a problem affecting Diablo 3, maybe it's over now.

Anonymous needs to pay a little visit to the Lizard butt-holes.

Well, if the future of gaming is online, I hope they have back-up plans for when some bored hackers decide to mess up their stuff.

yes this is going on,because my son was trying to log into WOW and had a 22 min wait time.Not sure if it is hacker attacks though.