Hackers attacked the Steam on the birthday of its founder
A group of hackers Phantom Squad has claimed responsibility for hacking the servers of the service of digital content, Steam. The representatives of the group said on its Twitter page.
DDoS-attack was timed to the birthday of the head of Valve Gabe Newell on 3 November. Half an hour later hackers have stopped the attack and gave Newell his congratulations.
We stopped the attacks on steam. Have fun and tell Gaben we said Happy Birthday.
— Phantom Squad (@PhantomNations) November 3, 2016
Thus before the collapse of servers Phantom Squad said that the attack will take place all day and was advised to play on consoles.
Team Phantom Squad is not the first time satisfied with attacks on the servers of various companies in anticipation of important events and holidays. So, in December 2015 hacked the Xbox Live servers, which service has long been unavailable.
Digital store Steam performs the functions of service activation, downloading via the Internet, automatic updates and news for games as most of the Valve, and the third party under the agreement. Base of the service has more than 6,5 thousand games.