Is origin systems down? Anyone having trouble?

I found a thread about this on the bugs and issues forum

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9890506.page

I'm glad it's not just me, I always get freaked out when this stuff happens.

Yeah server is down and also access to the forum was down too. DO NOT CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT.
it may screw your sf! (Advice from tstotopix)

I cant even read anything from
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Simpsons-Tapped-Out/bd-p/The-Simpsons-Tapped-Out

And to think we were going to get an ingame update tonight according to spAnser lol
also i am logged in but if i tap after a few seconds it gives me bart

Also experiencing the same issues in Australia. Ack... and I still have the treehouse quest for Homer and Lisa to start...

Same here. Can't get on. Origin servers seem to be down. For a while, I couldn't even load the forums.

It appears EA is the victim of a DOS attack by hackers.

Just posted to http://twitter.com/DerpTrolling

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s242/wadecounty44/tweet_zpsb129e3f1.gif~original

And a couple days ago http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/31/hacker-group-derp-takes-down-multiple-online-gaming-servers

Finally got back into the forum. Keep getting the cannot connect to server prompt.

Mopurglar wrote:
It appears EA is the victim of a DOS attack by hackers.

Just posted to http://twitter.com/DerpTrolling

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s242/wadecounty44/tweet_zpsb129e3f1.gif~original

And a couple days ago http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/31/hacker-group-derp-takes-down-multiple-online-gaming-servers

Bastards. And they think this is funny?