DDOS attack

[littlehobbit13]

Surely you'd think they'd invest in some measures to fight against it?

What makes you think they haven't? Means of exploiting vulnerabilities in security evolve in the same way that security mitigations do. Square could have the best security money could buy, and there'd still be someone out there trying to figure out how to break through just for the simple joy of doing it. That's even assuming a direct confrontation between SE and their hacker, not even accounting for 3rd party infrastructure which SE has no control over. I'm here with a Cybersecurity degree to tell you that's simple the nature of the beast that is internet security. They can only "resolve" the attack in a more permanent fashion once they figure out exactly how the attack is occurring, in the same way doctors can only cure a disease once they figure out exactly how it's making you sick.

People should be a little more reasonable about this. It's not Square's fault, yet there are a few too many people in this thread trying to blame them as if they aren't doing enough. I understand it's inconvenient and frustrating as a player but trust me, y'all, this is something that's affecting their bottom line. They are absolutely doing something about it as quickly as they can.