Steam went offline earlier today in an odd but thankfully brief hitch that may have been a small part of a much bigger thing: Xbox, PlayStation, Riot Games, and Epic all suffered a very sudden spike in outage reports at around the same time last night, and that's led to speculation that it might be part of a massive DDoS targeting online game services.

As seen in outage reports on Downdetector , the timing is awfully coincidental.

Steam:

Epic Games Store:

PlayStation Network:

Xbox Live:

League of Legends:

Valorant:

Fortnite:

At a little before 11 pm ET on October 6, Riot reported "game disconnection issues" on its League of Legends and Valorant status pages. Those status reports remain active for now. Shortly before that, reports of Steam and Riot being hit with a DDoS attack also

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