Servers for Destiny and Call of Duty: Ghosts are down across all platforms, with the hacker group Lizard Squad tweeting that they have struck again.
"Woah, I think there are some Ghosts haunting Destiny," tweeted the official Lizard Squad account.
"CoD Ghosts & Destiny #offline," said the Lizard Squad account in another tweet.
The Lizard Squad did the same thing last week, when they crashed the servers of Destiny on both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One with distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks.
The reasoning for the decision by the Lizard Squad to target Destiny may be due to the fact that the game is currently the most-played FPS, making it an attractive target for the hackers.
Users who try to log in to the Destiny servers were greeted with a message that said, "Lost Connection to partner service. Please Check your network configuration and try again. For information on resolving this issue visit: help.bungie.net and search for: Caterpillar."
Bungie admitted the connection issues that Destiny players were facing, saying that they were already working to fix the problem in a tweet sent out by the Bungie Help account.
"We're aware of connection issues affecting portions of the Destiny player base and we're working to correct the problem. Please stay tuned," Bungie Help tweeted.
However, Bungie Help has deleted the tweet after the issue has been fixed and users were able to get back online.
Bungie.net was also said to have been affected, starting out as completely inaccessible before improving to being just sluggish, and then to fully functional but with several forums locked.
The issue, however, did not seem to affect all users worldwide as a player from Australia did not have any trouble logging in.
Destiny's server problems followed an entire weekend of escalating incidents of the Centipede error, which affected institutions such as college dormitories. Bungie has requested assistance from forum users to identify and fix the problem.
The launch of Destiny this month has been relatively smooth, especially considering the massive number of users that it has attracted. However, as the game continues to attract more gamers, every downtime becomes even more scrutinized. This could be the reason why the servers are Destiny are actually contained within a disaster-proof bunker somewhere in Las Vegas.
Destiny's day one sales broke the $500 million mark, which made it the biggest launch of a new video game franchise in the history of the video game industry. The sales on the first day already allowed Activision to make back the investment that it poured into developing and marketing Destiny, which is reportedly $500 million, which also gives it the record of being the most expensive video game ever developed.
