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[Poetic.Injustice]

We had been getting complaints through our Steam outage checker and now we have discovered that a Steam DDOS attempt may have been successful by hacking group ‘Phantom Squad’

http://www.product-reviews.net/2016/11/03/steam-down-with-ddos-threat-by-phantom-squad-on-nov-3/

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Boy, they sure showed... errrr.... somebody?

 

[Karspankey]

More like Kindergarten Squad...

 

[TheGamingBox]

well im still online on steam

 

[AcceptableGhost]

Am I missing something? Seems to be up for me? Has been up the whole day.

 

[Akai__]

a Steam DDOS attempt may have been successful by script kiddie group ‘Phantom Squad’

Fixed.

 

[Nokterian]

*looks at steam*

Nothing wrong here?

Also don't give them attention, but you gave them attention.

 

[DNAbro]

TIL steam is offline. Also super cereal.

 

[QuantumSquid]

Steam is working fine for me?

Little Script Kiddies V: The Phantom DDOS?

 

[EVA UNIT 01]

OK.jpg

 

[AlexFlame116]

So.....why do people do this kind of crap again? For the evulz or something?

 

[StrikeFirst117]

Is it? Been fine all day also, find these fuckers and lock them up or take them away from pc's for good.

 

[Horseticuffs]

I just got done playing Dead Space 2 like thirty minutes ago😱

 

[Joey Ravn]

There are so many more worthy endeavors out there in the world today that DDOSing Steam seems like a waste of time. Why not put your efforts into something that actually changes something?

Then again, I doubt that these people are capable of doing anything productive at all.

 

[Fusebox]

This is a serious operation! Mums keep out of our secret base! No gurlz allowed!

 

[orochi91]

This is a serious operation! Mums keep out of our secret base! No gurlz allowed!

Lmao

 

[Kayant]

Serious operation huh?

Looks at https://steamstat.us/

95.9% Online

 

[Akai__]

LOL it's not even down and they are claiming that it was them. Classic.

 

[Sesha]

Steam is/was offline? News to me. What a cereal operation.

 

[Jito]

Yawn...

 

[ThreePiMatt]

When they say "down" they mean, "kicked a bunch of people off." And when they say "all day" they mean 'two hours."

 

[Compsiox]

It lasted like an hour

Edit: 2

 

[Chobel]

"threat"

 

[Kyrios]

Are they called Phantom Squad because you can't tell if they are attacking or not?

Literally just signed on Steam with no problems.

 

[demosthenes]

http://www.product-reviews.net/2016/11/03/steam-down-with-ddos-threat-by-phantom-squad-on-nov-3/

Its closer to summer than to winter...

 

[-MD-]

40 people are online on my friends list lol, I haven't seen anyone go offline.

 

[synce]

I recall it was offline for about 2 minutes earlier today, I guess that's why

 

[MUnited83]

Steam is down for a little bit, script kiddies start to claim it was them who did it. Like clockwork.

 

[FStop7]

"This is a serious operation"

Oh fuck off, kiddos.

 

[VolticArchangel]

Webstore and client, both are working on my end. Is this US-only?

 

[Sakujou]

why do they attack steam?

btw. they are right.

people should play more on nintendo systems.

 

[hamchan]

Seems fine. What a failure of an attack lol. How embarrassing.

 

[kagamin]

why do they attack steam?

btw. they are right.

people should play more on nintendo systems.

Pokemon isn't out yet, I mean I should be playing Dragon Quest VII but I'm really dragging my feet with Grandia II and I really need to finish that before I start another JRPG.

 

[JC Lately]

Steam probably sees more traffic during a seasonal sale than whatever these guys could cook up anyway.

 

[Lindsay]

Another "squad"? Unoriginal in naming & activities. >_>

 

[Generalpsyduck]

Why?

 

[Xyber]

Its closer to summer than to winter...

Let's not get crazy now.

It snowed here today.

 

[Corpekata]

LOL why give them the attention like 5 hours after it was resolved?

 

[Nzyme32]

Well, their definition of all day being just over an hour is pretty wonky then. Even better, the time at which they did it wasn't a particularly important one for me.

 

[M.D]

My home internet is down anyways. Jokes on you!

 

[il Diavolo]

Why?

just because

 

[Menitta]

Let's not get crazy now.

It snowed here today.

Lucky...

 

[rrs]

Check out my booter service paid by my mom's credit card I'm so cool

 

[Easy_D]

It was down for a couple minutes earlier, nothing major. Either they fucking suck at what they're doing, or they saw Steam was down and just took credit for it. Either way, they're scrubs.

 

[Revolutionary]

Steam goes up and down all the time - I doubt anyone even noticed.

 

[SymbiantXenos]

Im on steam right now.

Bot net.fail

 

[Budi]

"This is a serious operation"

Oh fuck off, kiddos.

I chuckled too. Also, while I haven't been constantly checking Steam has worked fine for me.

 

[Generalpsyduck]

Phantomsquad is 2spooky4me

 

[Kelsdesu]

Why they do this?

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

There are so many more worthy endeavors out there in the world today that DDOSing Steam seems like a waste of time. Why not put your efforts into something that actually changes something?

Then again, I doubt that these people are capable of doing anything productive at all.

They're script kiddies, they don't have the talent to do anything significant.