Game developer Ubisoft has lodged a claim against the owners of a website that allegedly sells DDoS attacks against the servers of its best-selling game, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (R6S).
The lawsuit, filed in the US Court Central District of California on Thursday, holds the owners of the SNG.ONE website - who hail from Germany, Nigeria, and the Netherlands - responsible for DDoS attacks that have disrupted their multiplayer game servers by causing lag and crashing servers. The website sells $30 monthly subscriptions to services purportedly designed to help clients "test" their own website security. But screenshots taken by Ubisoft claim to show the website listing specific game servers, such as Fortnite, FIFA20, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, as potential targets. Ubisoft alleges the defendants are “well aware of the harm" their services have caused to its business. In court documents seen by The Register, the company said the defendants "have gone out of their way to taunt and attempt to embarrass Ubisoft for the damage [their] services have caused".
