Security News > 2022 > January > Cyberattacks on Squid Game Minecraft Tourney Take Down Andorra’s Internet

A massive Minecraft tournament styled after the Netflix blockbuster Squid Game apparently inspired a distributed denial of service attack that took down the sole internet service provider in Andorra.

Confirmed: Internet disruption registered on #Andorra Telecom on Saturday evening; the incident is attributed by the state telco to a DDoS attack targeting the high-stakes #SquidCraftGames Minecraft Twitch competition, resulting in the elimination of Team Andorra pic.

The SquidCraft Games kicked off on Jan. 19 with hosts Spanish streamers Rubius and Auronplay, who created the Squidcraft Games mode in Minecraft.

A pair of Apex Legends players were banned from the game last spring after launching DDoS attacks on an Xbox server.

The state-owned Andorra Telecom has just more than 80,000 Internet subscribers.

The country's entire population is only about 85,000 people, so when service was taken down it crippled much of the Andorra's society along with the handful of targeted gamers.

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