Security News > 2022 > December > FuboTV says World Cup streaming outage caused by a cyberattack
FuboTV has confirmed that a streaming outage preventing subscribers from watching the World Cup Qatar 2022 semifinal match between France and Morocco was caused by a cyberattack.
Subscribers could not contact support to report the problem, as it requires a user to first log in to the FuboTV site, which could no longer be done.
FuboTV soon tweeted that they were working on the issue and recommended subscribers stream the game through FOX. "Apologies to customers who are having issues with the France vs Morocco game. We are addressing the issue. Please note you can stream this game directly on FOX as well for free," tweeted the FuboTV Twitter account.
Today, FuboTV confirmed that a cyberattack was the cause of the outage and that they are continuing to investigate and respond to the incident.
"On December 14, 2022, the day of the Qatar 2022™ semifinal match between France and Morocco, many FuboTV customers experienced issues accessing their accounts," reads a statement posted to FuboTV's website.
FuboTV has not provided any details on the attack but did state that a lack of bandwidth did not cause the outage, indicating that this was not a distributed denial-of-service attack.