A hacking group took XBox Live off line for 24 hours with a DDoS attack.

Xbox Head Phil Spencer apologized to Xbox owners on Twitter by publicly stating he was “[v]ery sorry for the current issues.”

DDoS is a form of attack that floods a server with requests to the point that it cannot respond to legitimate requests by users. Xbox LIVE’s service was down briefly at the end of January and spotty for most of the month of February until yesterday’s attack took it down for North America and most of Europe.

The attackers claim they instigated the attack as a form of protest:

“We attacked Xbox to protest. Major companies like this have massive servers but no real protection. We want Xbox to update the protection they have, which isn’t much,” the hacker group told Newsweek.

However, they also claim super powers:

“[The Xbox attacks] also prove we do have as much power as we say we do, going out to the doubters,” the group’s representative told Newsweek. “[We could] honestly knock Xbox off the face of the Earth.”

The hackers did not identify themselves.

Source: The Inquisitr