For over 1,500 years, chess has remained one of the world’s most popular games and has successfully made the leap from the board to the screen online thanks to sites like Chess.com. However, the move online brings about its own drawbacks, as was discovered this week when a hacker attempted to put the site in check.
Chess.com was the victim of DDoS throughout the past week, mostly from July 22 to 25. The site attributed the attacks to “malicious hackers,” which led to downtime for the site across the week. A July 27 tweet confirmed multiple attacks had occurred but were ultimately repelled, with Chess.com thanking IT company Cloudflare for assistance in seeing the website return to operations ahead of the hotly-anticipated PogChamps Five event.
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