{"id":12838,"date":"2010-10-22T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/minecraft-suffers-ddos-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:08:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:08:59","slug":"minecraft-suffers-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/minecraft-suffers-ddos-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft suffers DDOS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Indie favorite Minecraft<\/strong><\/a> has been unavailable due to a distributed denial of service<\/strong> (DDOS) attack. These types of attacks have often been aimed at corporations and companies as a form of protest, so Minecraft’s one-man development team was a little confused as to why he was suffering.<\/p>\n

It seems as if Minecraft has been attacked by a group of unhappy Minecraft fans, who demanded more updates to the game! A message was posted on the notorious 4Chan<\/strong> site claiming responsibility, and while it’s hard to verify, it seems likely to be true.<\/p>\n

How long the attack will go on is not clear, but it certainly won’t help Minecraft get updated! What’s incredible about the timing of this is that there is a huge update planned for Halloween<\/strong><\/a>, which will introduce a new realm – Hell – along with more monsters and other developments. We can only hope the protesters get bored soon, so the rest of use can get back to mining and crafting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Indie favorite Minecraft has been unavailable due to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. These types of attacks have often been aimed at corporations and companies as a form of protest, so Minecraft’s one-man development team was a little confused as to why he was suffering. It seems as if Minecraft has been … Continue reading “Minecraft suffers DDOS attack”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2328],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionminecraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334649,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838\/revisions\/334649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12838"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12838"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12838"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}