DDOS attack

[Taliriah]

It's highly unlikely the attack is someone's personal grudge. It's basically guaranteed to be some larger corporate reason, like demonstrative purposes for potential clients and FF14 just happened to be something they picked since it is one of the bigger MMOs on the market. "Our botnet took down the servers of a huge MMO" is a great headline for a selling point.

So far it only caused a lot of mild annoyance so that's not a really great demonstration either.