And then the official website for Extra Life went down during the charity streams.
It did not take long for officials at Extra Life to speak out, exposing the site’s problems not as technical issues but as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The same announcement expressed both dismay and mild disbelief that someone would actually attack a charity.
While the streams hosted directly on the Extra Life website were interrupted, many more were being streamed through other services, allowing the charity itself to continue. In addition, the event director, Jeromy Adams actually took a very poignant message from the hacker attack, one which speaks for itself.
