VinWarrior Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 (edited) A group called D.E.R.P. has intermittently taken down multiple gaming sites and servers today via DDoS attacks. Riot Games' League of Legends servers took the brunt of the attack, as the NA/EU/OCE servers have been down for a good portion of the day, as was the LoL website and forums. The group also managed to take down the Dota 2 servers for a while, as well as Club Penguin, Battle.net, and EA.com. The group originally began the DDoS attacks with a few Tweets about League of Legends: @DerpTrolling They then began cyber-terrorizing other sites, including Battle.net, After which they began to speak with PhantomL0rd, a popular streamer on Twitch. He was playing a game of Dota 2 and they reached out to him to say if he lost the game they would take down Dota 2. He didn't win. They also got bored at some point and took down EA's website. Later in the day, DERP convinced PhantomL0rd to play Club Penguin, which turned out to be a mistake on his part, as they hacked into that as well. PhantomL0rd, who streamed most of the series of events, asked DERP what their main objectives were. "For the lulz," they responded. They also mentioned their dismay of money hungry companies. At the time of this writing, PhantomL0rd had to step away from his computer as he believed police officers were coming to his home. Most problems are being sorted out, but no word was released from the companies on the matter. Source: IGN Edited December 31, 2013 by Azaxx Included source 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDM Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 Well I will say, I've been to Club Penguin in an earlier stage in my life... And they are money hungry. They truly are, Most companies are. I'm not saying I agree with this act, But the fact that they do not like money hungry companies, I can see. Other than that, Thanks for the friendly warning. They may be with another act. Maybe. Maybe not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckoningZebra1 Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 Good find Omega thanks for sharing. Hopefully DERP will be stopped quickly, seeing as this is extremely immature and likely won't stop until something drastic happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshyzburton Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 (edited) i hate hackers in general and this is terrible i do hope that this D.E.R.P group is stopped before they do any more damage I find it amusing that a group abbreviated to D.E.R.P. is hacking a game abbreviated to L.O.L. ... Even so they should honestly be stopped. Edited January 5, 2014 by Azaxx Merging posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshi1176 Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 Hahaha, Club Penguin. People will always try to mess something up for you, they will get caught or something I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Recon Posted January 3, 2014 Report Share Posted January 3, 2014 I guess they have nothing better to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro Posted January 3, 2014 Report Share Posted January 3, 2014 With a name like DERP, they most likely have nothing better to do than taking down websites for the lulz and something else about internet justice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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