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.

Comments

DDOS is lame

[KlomDark]

Never had any respect for lamers who just do DDOSs. That's not hacking, it's just being annoying. Doesn't take any special skills.

It's nothing like breaking through some code or router or something that actually proves that you are of elite intelligence.

Breaking directly into Blizzard is one thing, but just snowing them under with myriad packets just isn't impressive.

Find something else to do with your life.

Re:Skin him alive on Twitch

[93 Escort Wagon]

It's funny how the DDOS of a gaming service is what it takes to get people upset here.

Attack a bank? Obviously they should have paid more attention to security - it's really their own fault.

Attack a politician? Well, they're evil anyway.

Attack someone suspected of a crime, even though they haven't stood trial? Well, these things happen.

Take down World of Warcraft? THIS SHALL NOT STAND!!