Today's Steam outage may have been part of a massive DDoS attack targeting Xbox, PlayStation, Riot, and other game companies

As seen in outage reports on Downdetector, the timing is awfully coincidental.

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Steam, Riot Games, and others may have been hit with a DDoS attack earlier today that broke records

Outages appear to have affected many gaming services and titles simultaneously, sparking rumors of a coordinated DDoS attack.