On the eve of Blizzard releasing Overwatch’s Summer Games special event, Battle.net is currently suffering from a DDoS attack, resulting in the game’s servers to currently be down.

Blizzard’s customer service Twitter account confirmed the DDoS attack this evening as it first suffered login issues, but is now suffering from an outright attack.

We are currently investigating reports of login issues. Apologies for any inconvenience caused, and we hope to have this resolved soon!

— BlizzardCS (@BlizzardCS) August 2, 2016

Not only does this DDoS attack come on the eve of Overwatch’s first special event, but it also comes shortly after Blizzard banned numerous users across all of Battle.net

As a result of this attack, many users are reporting connection issues with several Blizzard Entertainment properties, including Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and additional IPs.

Blizzard is currently working on resolving connection issues with Battle.net, although at this point, it appears it’s at the mercy of these DDoS attackers.

"Hacker" group Poodlecorp is claiming responsibility for tonight's outage:

(EU & US) Blizzard #Offline #PoodleCorp @BlizzardCS @PoodlesInBlack @Gh0stPoodle

— PoodleCorp (@PoodleCorp) August 3, 2016

The group is essentially holding Blizzard's servers hostage as it's requesting Twitter users to follow it's new member, Gh0stPoodle, even going as far as to give the account a goal in order to bring the servers back online:

Get @Gh0stPoodle to 10k followers for @Blizzard_Ent to come back online

— PoodleCorp (@PoodleCorp) August 2, 2016

We will continue to monitor the situation and will update our story accordingly. In the meantime, if you're unable to enjoy Overwatch's Summer Games event, be sure to check out the following stories to see Lucioball in action as well as see all of the available skins:

• Here Are All Of Overwatch's Rio Olympics 2016 'Summer Games' Skins
• Overwatch Taps Into Rocket League For Lucioball Weekly Brawl