Blizzard hit with DDoS attack disrupting play for gamers

Blizzard Entertainment was hit with a denial-of-service attack on Sunday that knocked its Battle.net Cybersecurity for kids: 'The earlier we teach this, the better specialists we'll have' A school in Estonia has started a pilot project to teach the basics of cybersecurity to teenagers. "We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games," Blizzard wrote in a tweet. Gamers took to social media with frustration, as VentureBeat points out it was the third time Blizzard's servers have gone down in a week. Poodle Corp, a splinter organization of Lizard Squad that specializes in taking down servers of large companies, is claiming responsibility for the attack.