Quote Originally Posted by Hestzhyen View Post
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...a1b8fa37bd1bdc

There's a DDoS attack against NA ISPs and backbone connections that started last night and it's been going on until now, yes. I don't know about the EU servers though.

I was lagging a bit in O3S last night, but not as bad as the people who were pokeballing and getting 90k'd. I'm on Verizon and the people who were d/cing were using Comcast. Give it another day or so to settle while the ISPs work to mitigate the issue.
What SE wrote:
"...we have coordinated with the upper ISPs to reinforce defensive measures."

How is it possible big companies like FF and major ISPs comcast/ATT/NTT/etc become vulnerable to these kinds of attacks multiple times within months? They have money to hire the creamest of the crop multiple layer IT protection services but still succumb to ye olde ddos attack?

I guess it's possible if the ddoser are top notch hackers, but why would top notch hackers ddos ISPs hosting games like these, it's not even political and do not give them $$ right? (unlike ransomware I guess) so what's their purpose?