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Twitter suspends account claiming responsibility for WoW DDoS attack, Blizzard confirms suspect has been arrested

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Dissent

Dom Sacco has an update to reporting of September 8:

UPDATE (September 20th): Blizzard has announced that a suspect has been arrested over this incident.

It said in a forum post: “Immediately after the Distributed Denial of Service attacks against our game service began, the Blizzard Security Team worked around the clock with local and international law enforcement agencies to track down the source of the DDoS.

“It is our understanding that, within a few days, authorities were able to successfully identify and arrest a suspect.”

Original article (published September 8th): Social media platform Twitter has shut down the account of someone claiming to have taken the World of Warcraft (WoW) servers offline this weekend.

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