Hacker Taunts Blizzard After Knocking Gamers Offline (csoonline.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday June 20, 2016 @03:23AM from the another-day,-another-hack dept.

Reader itwbennett writes: A person nicknamed AppleJ4ck, who has been previously been linked to Lizard Squad, a group notorious for DDoS attacks against gaming platforms, including the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, has taken credit for server outages affecting gaming giant Blizzard (Alternate source: ZDNet) Monday morning. The outages led to authentication lockouts for gamers attempting to access Overwatch, Hearth Stone, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Heroes of the Stone, and others. During the outage, AppleJ4ck said Monday's problems were just a test, promising more outages in the future.

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Re:Skin him alive on Twitch by simcop2387 · 2016-06-20 04:11 · Score: 3, Funny

Nah, that might make the news. Trump would go on twitter immediately and blame the wrong people.
We know one thing by Yvan256 · 2016-06-20 06:14 · Score: 4, Funny

With a name like AppleJ4ck, it does tell us that he's part of a team. Expect more hacks from Flutt3rShy, P1nkieP1e, R4riTy, Rainb0wD4sh and Tw1l1ghtSp4rkle.