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Game giant Electronic Arts is the latest victim of massive data breach

A hacker is claiming to have stolen 780GB worth of data Electronic Arts (EA) including source code. Electronic Arts (EA) is one of the leading game publishers in the industry. The company has confirmed that hackers have stolen valuable information from the company, and around 780GB of data was compromised. EA is among the largest […]

Apex Legends Crosses 10 Million Players Mark In Just 3 Days

The recently launched battle royale game ‘Apex Legends‘ has taken over the gaming world by a storm. Just within 3 days, it has managed to hit the mark of 10 million players — which took Fortnite at least two weeks to cover! Moreover, Apex Legends has gathered over 1 million concurrent players which speak for itself. “We knew […]

Man who conducted DDoS attacks on Sony, Xbox & EA pleads guilty

Austin Thompson, a 23-year-old man from Utah has pleaded guilty to conducting DDoS attacks on gaming giants between 2013 to 2014. Among his targets were companies like EA Origin, Sony’s PlayStation Network, Steam, Microsoft’s Xbox, Battle.net, and League of Legends, etc. Thompson who used the Twitter handle of DerpTrolling to announce attacks on his victims pleaded guilty this […]

Hackers crack Final Fantasy XV Windows edition before its launch

For gaming fans, the release of Final Fantasy XV for Windows was the event of the month given the high level of popularity this game has managed to garner over the years and the fierce fan-following it boasts of. However, much to their disappointment there are reports of Square Enix’s game being cracked by a […]

EA Servers Go Down; Battlefield 1 Servers Facing Outage

If you are wondering what is going on with Battlefield 1 then you are not alone, EA servers are down impacting Battlefield 1’s players in the United States and Europe with connectivity issues on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. The outage began around 4 pm today blocking players from online activities. The users, confused with the […]

Users reporting Electronic Arts (EA) servers are doing

Electronic Arts users are taking their questions on Twitter wondering why they are unable to connect to the servers. The service interruption started about two hours ago and since then users have been reporting the issue to the official support Twitter account of Electronic Arts. In a reply to one of those tweets, the EA support […]

Steam and Origin Servers Down? Phantom Squad & PoodleCorp Claim Responsibility

The famous DDoS attackers from Phantom Squad have claimed responsibility for conducting a series of powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) on Steam and online gaming platform Origin servers. Now, you must be wondering why? Well, that’s simply because Christmas is coming and for some reason unbeknown to anyone other than them, these attackers have developed a habit of targeting online […]

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 not alone since tons of other users are also complaining about EA servers being down. At the moment it is unclear what’s exactly going on but we can confirm that there hasn’t been any official tweet from EA Support twitter handle. It could be […]

Electronic Arts (EA) Blocks Origin-Based Games in Myanmar

Origin-Based Games Blocked by Electronic Arts (EA) in Myanmar — Five other Countries are already blocked including Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Syria and Ukraine. If you are in Myanmar and can’t access Origin-based games then it’s not some DDoS attack on Electonic Arts servers, it’s just that the company has blocked origin games in your country. […]

Hackers Shutdown EA and Steam Servers Because It’s Christmas

Last week HR reported about a hacking group “Phantom Squad” that is planning ruin holidays for the gamers. It looks like the group has started working on turning their plans into reality — However, another group known as SkidNP has also joined the attacks and shut down Steam servers. EA Servers: The group Phantom Squad […]