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Hacking Group 'OurMine' Claims Credit For Attack On Pokemon Go Servers (independent.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: A group of hackers known as OurMine have attacked Pokemon Go's login servers, making it all but impossible for players to get online. The group says they hacked the game in an effort for the game to be more stable. They want to show the developers behind Pokemon Go that the app can and should be made more secure. Prior to the hack, the servers have been shaky as interest in the game has spiked. But over the weekend, users faced the most extreme connectivity issues yet. "No one will be able to play this game till Pokemon Go contact us on our website to teach them how to protect it!" the group wrote on its website. A different hacking group, which claimed to be part of OurMine, said that the latest attack had been launched after the huge outage caused by a group called Poodlecorp, on Saturday. "The group makes money from charging for vulnerability assessment, where hackers attempt to break into corporate networks to check how safe they are," reports The Independent. A representative said via Twitter that the group wasn't requesting money from those behind Pokemon Go, and that OurMine "just don't want other hackers [to] attack their servers." It should come as no surprise to see that the servers have been having trouble keeping up with demand as Pokemon Go has become the biggest mobile game in U.S. history after launching just about two weeks ago.
from the AARP lawn
The script kiddies know how to bring things down in, perhaps, ten of a hundred different ways. The remaining ninety are known by the actual experts with jobs.
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So you found out how to rent a botnet, that'll teach 'em... Now give Mommy her Creditcard back!
The group makes money from charging for vulnerability assessment,
You say potato, I say extortion... This is simply a new generation of organized crime demanding "protection money", to keep a business safe.
I played all weekend and didn't have any problems.
Also, since when is DDoSing considered "hacking" ?
Oh, right, never.
Considering that a light breeze is all that it seems to take to bring down the Pokemon Go servers, they'd better provide some proof it was actually their doing, I'd say.
Anyone who played ingress knows the amount of downtime and connectivity issues early on (and heck even later) Mantic had dealing with the load, and this game has taken off much much more than Ingress had.
The load of the players alone are DDoS'ing it
...Team Rocket is real
Table-ized A.I.
Clearly they weren't successful.
Tomara que sejam os úlimos 3 meses de vida dessa otária, isso sim.
So, I wasn't sure if the outages were because Niantic/Google wasn't able to scale out because of demand, that didn't sound right. Sure enough, it's some assholes who think they are doing someone a favour. Fuck them.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is annoyed at this and being unable to play - yeah I know it's just a game, but it's fun, exercise, and good times.
that which can be more effectively explained by stupidity. Skiddies will always claim victory for instability. Niantic likely supports GO authentication servers in shared hosting/colocation outsourced datacenters. Its far more likely Niantic is either under-resourcing their Pokemon infrastructure to control costs for a largely free game, or that their infrastructure scales poorly with the particular code used to run pokemon GO. its also possibly that hasty configurations like NAT instead of DSR or a lack of IPv6 infrastructure could be bottle-necking large amounts of authentication traffic, or if it truly is a DDoS then Niantic is just choosing to ignore it rather than escalate to things like prolexic or hiring more network staff to address the problem.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I don't care if there's a related /. story (they're usually not). When I look at a story it's to look at that story.
So stop with your traffic-driving ad-revenue-generating borderline-clickbait bullshit.
Title says it all.
Hacking is to a scripted DDOS attack as picking a lock is to putting superglue in the lock.
The former demonstrates skill of the attacker and the weakness of the defenses. The other demonstrates the attacker's ability to be an annoying asshole.
Because haxx0rz! And haxx! And haxxin! On the cyberinterwebz! Totes different!
Well, no. But it does the computer security industry good to strew scary scare words of scaremongering about with wild abandon. And as long as that is the case, there'll be no real security. As such, expect the breathless vapid fancy wordmongering to continue.
> The group says they hacked the game in an effort for the game to be more stable. They want to show the developers behind Pokemon Go that the app can and should be made more secure.
"Your honor, we broke into that house and trashed it to show the owners people could break into the house and trash it."? Good luck with that, script kiddies. And hold on tight to your soap!
Get a life losers. Renting a bunch of computers isnt being a hacker. Its being a waste of time.
I guess it is better than hackers messing with people's lives in hospitals. Or people crushing people's personal data by hacking their computer with a virus. But hacking kids' games is still what bad people do. Its like going to a little league game and stealing all their equipment so they can't play.
They launched in additional countries over the weekend. These children are taking credit for that. Stop giving them attention.
I finally looked up a youtube vid to find out what all the fuss was about and I must say, the human race is definitely getting dumber. I was amazed that so many would waste so much time with Farmville and Dirty Birds, but idiots have DIED over this stupid shit...?!?! Whole world is going to hell in a handbasket and the bottom 50% of the gene pool would rather chase a pikachu than educate themselves on what can be done to head off global tyranny/the apocalypse/etc.
Humans don't just deserve great tribulation, we need it. And get yer orb-chucking asses off my lawn...
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
Any rabble can drop a few BTC.
Funny thing is, over the weekend I thought it was easier to log on and play. But what do I know, I'm an almost 30 year old living with his parents playing pokemon.
It is all intended distraction to get you to not pay attention to something nearby that is important.
I thought Poodlecorp claimed they did it, so who really did it? ðY
So attacking a server, with the goal of showing its weakness- then demanding the company 'just talk to them so we can educate them' is one helluva way to 'help'. What ever happened to contacting them in a professional way? Or reaching out in email/fb/phone/etc Or maybe just do it for one hour & that's it? I think they just wanted a shout out and acknowledgement for their 1337 ways.
I mean this is akin to punching someone in the face and then handing them a card for your self-defense class. Your 'customer' will not be open to your advice and will consider YOU the threat. It is too fashionable these days to be a jerk.
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