Minecraft Squid Game tournament almost broke an entire country’s internet

A Squid Game-inspired Minecraft tournament was targeted by a cyberattack that left many people in Andorra with internet issues.

As shared by IGN, last weekend a major Minecraft tournament that was inspired by the sadistic games in Squid Game was targeted by a cyberattack. The DDoS attack was initiated in the hopes of overwhelming Andorra’s internet service with a sudden overflow of traffic and resulted in the elimination of Team Andorra from the Squid Craft Games.

Reporting the outage, NetBlocks - a Twitter account that tracks network disruptions and shutdowns across the globe - said: "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."

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