Pokemon down: Hacking group claims responsibility for bringing down game's servers 'with DDOS attack

[Renew Deal]

Source: Independent UK

A hacking group has claimed responsbility for taking down the Pokemon Go servers using a DDOS attack.

A cyber collective known as PoodleCorp announced on Twitter it was behind the action, but this claim is yet to be verified.

The account also retweeted a post by a user claiming to be the leader of PoodleCorp.
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A DDOS, or Denial of Distributed Service, is a way troublemakers crash servers by flooding them with so many requests every second that they cannot cope.
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Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/pokemon-go-down-servers-ddos-attack-hackers-poodlecorp-game-unavailable-a7140811.html

[louis-t]

1. What a clusterfuck.

[Feeling the Bern]

2. More people will get pissed off that this than their government fucking them over

Watch!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. "PoodleCorp"????

[jtuck004]

4. Probably saved a life or two. n/t

[ancianita]

5. Go out and really play, kids!

[AgingAmerican]

6. Stampede in Central Park

https://vimeo.com/174821377

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Dickish move

It's just people having fun with a video game, not a Jesus hates fags app.
These hackers have even more spare time on their hands than the gamers.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Driving through my small hometown this week, packs of folk staring thru their cells

Groups of teenagers, single fellows wearing backpacks and headphones, family groups with kids, all holding up their phones and watching the world on it's screen instead of their own eyes.

Walking through alleys, down the railroad tracks, through farm fields, across lawns.

Folk who look like they haven't been outside of their house for years, skin as pale as a priest's legs.