Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) shares were slipping following an outage of the company’s servers that hit multiple continents.
The company announced that its servers were hit with a DDoS attack that began Wednesday at midnight in South Africa. The outage then spread to different parts of the world, including Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, Australia and more.
Collective hacking group PoodleCorp took responsibility for the attack via a Twitter announcement. Electronic Arts has been attempting to ameliorate the problem, but the company announced via the same social media site that its support team has a lengthy waiting list and the company is doing everything it can to meet its gamers’ needs.
It is believed that the attack was strategically planned to hit EA’s servers at the same time as the release of the Battlefield 1 open beta, which recently went live to non-insiders. A slate of other company titles were affected as well, including FIFA games, Madden offerings, Battlefield 4, Star Wars: Battlefront and more.
It has yet to be determined why PoodleCorp decided to carry out the attack on Electronic Arts’ servers. This is the company’s second outage of the summer as an earlier one took place on July of this year.
The collective has also attacked World of Warcraft and PlayStation servers in recent weeks.
You can read more about the outage and lodge a complaint here.
EA stock is down 0.4% Wednesday.
