DDoS Attack by Phantom Squad: EA, Battlefield 1 servers go down

If you are an Electronic Arts (EA) customer then don't worry you are non unparalleled since tons of other users are likewise complaining about EA servers being down. At the moment it is unclear what's exactly going on but we can confirm that thither hasn't been any official tweet from Ea Support twitter handle. It could beryllium because the accompany is not aware of the issue or their engineers may be working to bring the service support online.

Mastered Detector, an online Robert William Service that provides updates about online outages has also confirmed that EA servers are down and there are hundreds of comments from users cursing at EA especially because it's Friday night, the outflank time for gaming.

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There are various users on Twitter World Health Organization are looking answers.

https://chirrup.com/rickyrick713/status/809858670817382400

Ea servers in bf 1 go through ?

— Στέλιος Παπάζογλου (@UrieLst) Dec 16, 2016

https://twitter.com/Javier_Jalepeno/position/809860411294150656

IT is unclear if the outage is collectible to a technical issue or this is a DDoS attack. In case this is a DDoS attack get into't be surprised as Christmas is coming which way it's that time of the year when hackers sleep with to boil your ancestry by massive DDoS attacks. For example, last year on Christmas eve EA servers were shut down after a cyber attack from "Phantom Squad".

For your information, Phantom Squad also vowed to shut down gaming giants this Christmas notwithstandin at the clock of publishing this article there was no nip from Phantom Squad most the attack.

Update:

Phantom Squad has claimed responsibility for conducting DDoS attempt on Ea impacting Battlefield 1 servers for users altogether over the world. In their latest tweet, attackers from Phantom Squad aforementioned they will be keeping Battlefield 1 servers dejected and they are waiting for starskids to take up an autistic breakdown.

There has been not a single tweet from Ea itself probably because they are already dispatch for the weekend. Well, we wish Ea users good luck.

Stay tuned.

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