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: GamePolitics.comMinecraft Brought Down by DDoS Attacks
By james_fudge
Minecraft.net has been victimized by a DDoS attack since yesterday afternoon because - according to published reports - some fans are not happy with the way developer Markus Persson is handling the game's ongoing development. The attackers want updates now.. or else. Since Minecraft is an online-centric game, this means that everyone who owns the game and wants to play it cannot because of a few disgruntled players.
"I'm not sure exactly what's going on, but minecraft.net appears to be suffering some kind of attack, and is down at the moment," Persson wrote on his personal blog. "I'm working on fixing it."
Later in the day, he followed up with more info on the attacks: "SYN flood, apparently," he wrote. "I've learned a lot today." Read More
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).
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