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[Resolved][Severity: Moderate][DDoS]

Square Enix: DDoS attack on Final Fantasy XIV caused connection problems at its North American data center for about ten hours

A DDoS attack on FFXIV caused disconnections from and difficult logins to North American data center worlds from about 18:13 on January 6 to about 04:13 the next day.

Disclosed

2025-01-06

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. A network failure caused by a DDoS attack began. Players could be disconnected from worlds in the North American data center, and logging in, connecting and sending or receiving data could be difficult. [1] [2]

  2. The problems continued until about this time. [2]

Timeline

  1. Started, Detected, Disclosed 2025-01-06
  2. 1 days

Attack or cause

Method
[DDoS]
Impact
[Service outage]
Entry point
Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

–

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][Official]DDoS攻撃によるネットワーク障害発生のお知らせ(1/6)SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
  2. [2][News]「ファイナルファンタジーXIV」に DDoS 攻撃ScanNetSecurity · 2025-01-20 08:05