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Hacker group Lizard Squad claims to have taken EA’s servers down

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The hacker group Lizard Squad claims to have brought down game publisher Electronic Arts’ servers. If it’s true, there are going to be some more angry gamers.

Lizard Squad tweeted its usual terse message, saying “EA #offline #LizardSquad.” We’ve asked EA for comment and haven’t heard back. But numerous players are starting to complain that they can’t access their EA games. Others are saying that the servers are back up.

Xbox Live was also brought down on two occasions this month, reportedly by Lizard Squad’s distributed denial of service attacks, where its members flood servers with junk messages to overwhelm them and take them offline. Lizard Squad also claimed credit for bringing down Call of Duty, Destiny, and EA games back in September. Sony’s PlayStation Network was also attacked.

We’ll keep you posted if we hear more.

 

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.