VIDEO GAME NEWS - MAY 8, 2013 - BY: SCOTT GRILL
Battlefield 3 currently under a DDOS attack.
Credits: DICE, Electronic Arts
The Battlefield 3 servers for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC went down Wednesday as the result of a DDOS attack.
DICE confirmed the attack on
Battlelog with a note saying, "The current [Battlefield 3] and Battelog outages are a result of activity that appears to be aimed at overwhelming our game servers."
These kind of Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks are nothing new for the game unfortunately as a Battlelog developer revealed in a forum post at the MyrCon development community.
To those of you who feel that we're not doing enough, we've been handling these DDoS (and RDDoS) attacks for longer than you guys have been seeing the issues, unfortunately as with all of these sort of attacks, it's a constant cat and mouse game, and it's extremely expensive and time consuming on our side to mitigate. We (and our hosts) are in constant 24/7 Red Alert mode trying to handle the problem and find who is responsible. It's not easy, it takes a LOT of manpower, and it is unbelievably expensive with all the hardware we have to run to attempt to keep services working as best as they can when being utterly flooded by the attacker(s).
The outage as the result of the attacks began at approximately 3 a.m. EST Wednesday morning. Battlefield 3 is still down as of 9:54 a.m. EST. The last update from the official
Battlefield twitter account at that time said, "We are aware of this and are working on the servers currently. Stay tuned for updates regarding a solution."
