The Crunchyroll streaming service has been down the last few days as the company is a victim of a massive DDOS attack. This is the same type of Distributed Denial of Service that plagued Sony and Microsoft gaming networks for approximately three days around Christmas.
The online media service Crunchyroll is likely the largest company in the world that exclusively shows anime and mange television episodes and movies. Most of their content is aimed at people outside of Japan because the vast majority are subtitled. The streaming company has over 400 000 reported paid subscribers doubling its total in about one and a half years. Crunchyroll previously announced that it had over 200 000 subscribers at Tokyo International Anime Fair in March 2013.
The companies apps for iOS Android Roku Apple TV and everything else went down late Monday evening. It is currently unknown whether or not Lizard Squad is also responsible for this attack.
One of the big concerns from the Crunchyroll user base is what will happen to the weekly simulcast release schedule Will everything be delayed a few days Will the company is posting all of the new content as soon as the server situation as been stabilized No one really knows at this point.
Hey guys we re under a DDoS of the same magnitude that Xbox and PSN experienced. We re working hard to fix this thanks for your patience.
Crunchyroll ( Crunchyroll) December 30 2014
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