Swedish police arrest suspect for DDoS attacks on matchmaking platform
The Swedish police has caught a suspect for disrupting the service of a third party CS:GO matchmaking platform called Esportal.
In Sweden, the police has tracked down a suspect who is possibly the person responsible for all the DDoS attacks that have been disrupting the CS:GO matchmaking platform, Esportal.
The third-party matchmaking service has in a public statement, given a brief about the DDoS attacks. According to them, the attacks started to occur around June against various of their servers. Immediately, an internal investigation was launched to stop these attacks and secure the infrastructure, while they were trying to identify the perpetrators.
More than a month later, the investigation came to an end and Esportal reached out to the Swedish Police, making sure that the authorities knew of the attacks, along with the negative impact it has had on them.
The Swedish police has since arrested a suspect in connection with these DDoS attacks.
“On August 6th the attacks ceased following the arrest of a suspect. The following day they were also detained by Swedish Authorities suspected on probable cause for gross breach of data security.”
Read the full statement here:
Laws against data breach in Sweden were made stricter in 2014, with the minimum sentence being six months while the maximum sentence is six years.
The Swedish matchmaking platform concluded by stating that they will not comment further on the matter, and are working to resolve the matter completely.
