December 24, 2015 10:00 pm
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PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks By Taking Down EA Servers
An anonymous reader writes: The hacking crew was not kidding about their Christmas DDoS attacks on Xbox & PSN. This morning the group started warmup attacks on the EA network, taking it down for 3 hours. The attacks were severe enough to take down the network completely, and EA issued apologies on its Twitter account. Phantom Squad is now carrying out DDoS attacks on PSN. Users started reporting outages in small areas around the world.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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