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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DRM? What's that? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-06-20 03:32 · Score: 0, Troll

This is precisely why you should only buy a game after a crack is available for it.
Skin him alive on Twitch by Anonymous Coward · 2016-06-20 03:33 · Score: 0, Troll

People like AppleJ4ck need to be caught and skinned alive on Twitch streams as a warning to other children acting like this.