{"id":3114,"date":"2017-06-22T23:13:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T21:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2017-06-22T23:14:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T21:14:05","slug":"summer-sale-cyber-attack-on-steam-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/06\/22\/summer-sale-cyber-attack-on-steam-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Sale: Cyber attack on #Steam server?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" align=\"left\" height=\"47\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/summer-sale-cyberangriff-auf-steam-server\/\" target=\"_blank\">German<\/a>]Has Valve and it's platform Steam a victim of a cyber attack? There are rumors, that Steam's server will be hit by a massive DDoS attack.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Some background<\/h2>\n<p>Valve has started its Summer Sale campaign from June 22, till Jul 5, 2017 on his Steam platform (see <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Store)<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Steam Summer Sale\" alt=\"Steam Summer Sale\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GzZnL9f.jpg\"><br \/>(Source: Valve)<\/p>\n<p>Valve offers discounts, for thousands of games \u2013 so Summer Sales is a Gamers equvalent to Christmas sales for other people. <\/p>\n<h2>Steam down due to a cyber attack?<\/h2>\n<p>Currently users reporting, that Steam's server aren't accessible, so they wasn't able to drop an discounted order for games. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"de\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are attacking \"STEAM\" in the test, the attacks that are occurring are not official, very soon we will attack all the servers.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/steamdown?src=hash\">#steamdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CyberTeam (@_CyberTeam_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_CyberTeam_\/status\/877947709562306561\">22. Juni 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"preserve100f8d850ac1476db2c9d987c11456e4\" class=\"wlWriterPreserve\"><SCRIPT charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async><\/SCRIPT><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>A hacker group called CyberTeam claims via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_CyberTeam_\/status\/877947709562306561\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, that a test attack has been started against Stream. Soon a massive DDoS attack on all servers will be following.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Steam Downdetector\" alt=\"Steam Downdetector\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/5Cvw2c1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/steam\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Downdetector<\/a> shows some problems within the last hours. We will see, what's going on during the next hours and days. Is somebody affected?&nbsp; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/steam-servers-experiencing-issues-following-summer-sale-possibly-due-to-cyberattack\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Has Valve and it's platform Steam a victim of a cyber attack? There are rumors, that Steam's server will be hit by a massive DDoS attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,580],"tags":[902,464,901],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-security","tag-cyber-attack","tag-down","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}