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

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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Internet not designed for this

[DogDude]

This is going to keep happening, because the Internet was never, every designed for something like this. Security is near impossible, because it was designed to be an OPEN system, not a closed one, with security everywhere. Like it or not, the Internet is going to continue to break in bigger and bigger ways.

Someone put out the memo

[stealth_finger]

DDoS isn't hacking.