Play a game yesterday, DDOSSED. Try again tonight DDOSSED by the same person

[Reject-11726]

I am now on a 8 hour ban from being DDOSSED that many times in top500 Xbox

[Nicole-1893]

Unfortunately, your information is leaking via the Xbox network, not Blizzard’s games. If you think you are truly being DDoS’d by someone on Xbox, you need to reach out to Microsoft. They will have access to the player’s account and be able to see their communication history. In the meantime, don’t group with people on Xbox you don’t trust when queuing for Overwatch games, or any other titles.

[Reject-11726]

I am not grouping or queuing with anyone. There is a public website with my ip on it. Every game I get into someone hits me offline. I literally cannot play the product anymore. I guess I’ll just move to pc since blizzard doesn’t Care about Xbox. There’s no way you can let these players do this season after season SITTTING RANK ONE on your leaderboard and not care at all. It’s really sad. Xbox won’t help. Blizzard won’t do anything. So I guess Xbox top500 will just be all the ddossers seeing who can’t hit the other off better. PATHETIC.

[chikynuggs-1927]

PLEASE HELP. Look at the entire top 10 on Xbox please I’m begging you They are all admitted DDOSers. I love this game and I just want to play it. These people brag about DDOSing and openly talk about it on Twitter because they receive no consequences. YOU talk to Microsoft. You are the million dollar company. I can’t keep being banned like this. I will never be able to play again. I’m moving to pc too.

[Nicole-1893]

@Reject-11726

There is a public website with my ip on it.

If your IP is static, you’ll need to contact the ISP and they can easily change it so you stop having that problem. If it’s dynamic, you may even be able to do it yourself by taking the modem offline overnight, or even for 10 minutes, depending on how your ISP assigns them. If you’re not sure about dynamic vs static, follow the steps for dynamic and try to do it on your own.

@Reject-11726

I guess I’ll just move to pc since blizzard doesn’t Care about Xbox

Keep in mind that I don’t work for Blizzard. It’s not that no one wants to help you or cares about this situation, instead it’s the fact that your connection is not policed by Blizzard. They have no hand in assigning you an IP, or leaking your info. The only detected leak on the Xbox platform is through Microsoft’s social tools. Your IP is not being exposed by the Overwatch client itself.

@Reject-11726

Xbox won’t help.

I’m not sure how the situation with Xbox transpired, but ultimately, your ISP will care if someone is DDoSing you. This will hurt their network and their monetary interests. Just call them and get a new IP, there’s no need to overcomplicate the situation or switch platforms, unless that is truly what you want to do.

I hope this info helps, whatever you decide.

[Nicole-1893]

You’ll want to edit mentions of tools that are used for exploits out of your post, or mods may take action on it

@Reject-11726

All they do is pull every players IP in the game

That requires P2P, which isn’t available in Overwatch. Here’s the info on what’s happening to cause this.

@Drakuloth

So they need my IP to do a Denial of Service Attack. How do they get it?

Without going into the actual process by which this is done (I don’t want to encourage any more people to do this, because it’s illegal), it starts by having a Peer to Peer connection with another person. I’m bringing this up specifically because it is impossible for someone to get your IP address from within Overwatch. We do not use any Peer to Peer connectivity in Overwatch - as both your game connections and Vivox go through our centralized servers.

Currently, some Party Chat on Xbox Live goes through Peer to Peer, but this is a problem that Microsoft is currently working on . Because Peer to Peer connections do not occur within Overwatch, your best chance at avoiding such an attack is to never join an Xbox Party Chat Request from someone you do not trust. If you only use Overwatch in game chat to communicate, you will not have your IP exposed, since all traffic goes through a centralized server.

I may have exposed my IP address and I think I’m being attacked. What do I do?

Please note that there is nothing that we can do to help you with a Denial of Service attack, because we have no control over your IP address. Similarly, if you are disconnecting from the game for any reason, we do not remove leaver penalties . If you’re regularly disconnecting, you need to troubleshoot the disconnections , and if you think you’re disconnecting due to a DoS attack, that means reaching out to your Internet Service Provider.

Since a DoS attack requires your IP address, the easiest way to fix it is to contact your ISP and ask them to change your IP address. Once they do this, the attacks should stop (unless you join a Peer to Peer service with someone and expose your IP address again.) With that in mind, if you continue to disconnect after changing your IP address, you were not experiencing a DoS attack. You’d want to do normal connection troubleshooting instead.