Here's Why 'Overwatch,' 'World Of Warcraft' And More Blizzard Games Were Down On Sunday

According to VentureBeat, the cyberattack knocked off Battle.net servers and kept players offline for some time. The site also reported that players took to social media to share that they were experiencing difficulties in accessing the games they were playing. Blizzard took to Twitter to confirm that a DDoS attack was preventing their network providers from functioning well. The publisher wrote: "We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games." VentureBeat also pointed out that the Sept. 18 incident was the third time that Blizzard's servers went down in a week. However, the first two incidents -- reportedly took place on Sept. 13 and Sept. 16 -- were problems with authentication servers, while the latest one was an assault on the company's networks.