{"id":52932,"date":"2013-12-31T12:34:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T04:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=52932"},"modified":"2013-12-31T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T04:35:28","slug":"hackers-taking-down-big-game-titles-and-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/hackers-taking-down-big-game-titles-and-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers taking down big game titles and websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of hackers calling themselves <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerpTrolling\" target=\"_blank\">DERP<\/a>\u00a0have been bringing down some of the top game servers today. By means of DDoS attacks, they have been crashing game servers and websites including Electronic Arts&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">EA.com<\/a> website for a short while.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"52934\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/hackers-taking-down-big-game-titles-and-websites\/original-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/original.jpg?fit=600%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Offline\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/original.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/original.jpg?fit=600%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52934\" alt=\"Offline\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/original.jpg?resize=600%2C337\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/original.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/original.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Apparently, all the attacks are mainly focused on a game streamer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/phantoml0rd\" target=\"_blank\">PhantomL0rd<\/a>, and crashing the games he usually streams. At the time of writing, police have arrived and swept PhantomL0rd&#8217;s place\u00a0as posted on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhantomL0rd\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the event timeline here on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/leagueoflegends\/comments\/1u1pcz\/servers_down_discuss_here\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DERP &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerpTrolling\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerpTrolling<br \/>\n<\/a>PhantomL0rd &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhantomL0rd\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhantomL0rd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a title=\"source\" href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/hackers-claim-takedown-of-battle-net-league-of-legends-1491906080\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of hackers calling themselves DERP\u00a0have been bringing down some of the top game servers today. By means of DDoS attacks, they have been crashing game servers and websites including Electronic Arts&#8217; EA.com website for a short while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98,1509,58,4,14],"tags":[2457,1133,12077,2340,9737,4357,3091,3281,1088,9365,9366,12080,8395,12079,12078,12082,12081],"class_list":["post-52932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer","category-featured","category-game","category-information","category-techie","tag-blizzard","tag-ddos","tag-derp","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-featured-2","tag-game-2","tag-gaming","tag-hack","tag-hackers","tag-hacking","tag-phantoml0rd","tag-reddit","tag-riot","tag-servers","tag-twitch","tag-twitch-tv"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/original.jpg?fit=600%2C337&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-dLK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52937,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52932\/revisions\/52937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}