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Pokemon Go DDoS Attacks Postponed As PoodleCorp Botnet Suffers Security Breach (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Softpedia: "The hacking crew [PoodleCorp] that promised to launch DDoS attacks on the Pokemon GO servers on August 1 suffered a major setback, after someone hacked their site, dumped the database, and shared it with data breach index service LeakedSource," reports Softpedia. "PoodleCorp responded to LeakedSource's announcement with what they knew best, a DDoS attack." When that happened, LeakedSource started looking at the leaked data and discovered full names for three of PoodleCorp's members, saying they intend to share it with authorities. Soon after, PoodleCorp stopped the DDoS against LeakedSource and went to annoy Blizzard gamers. "It's a terrible idea to attack a business that knows something about virtually everybody," a LeakedSource spokesperson said.
Well... that's interesting.
Now the question is, is this legit?
Translation: A bunch of self-centred sociopathic cunts want to fuck with peoples' fun because, well, they are heartless soulless pieces of shit that wouldn't be missed even by their mothers if they failed to return home.
I couldn't give a flying fuck about Pokemon Go, but these kinds of "hackers" really are worthless pieces of scum. I hope the lot of them end up being cornholed in prison endlessly, until they suffer incurable anal incontinence.
I love it when 2 entities i don't like combat each other, no matter the outcome, i'm a winner
Why not just execute them? It's simpler and quicker.
"A bunch of self-centred sociopathic cunts want to fuck with peoples' fun because, well, they are heartless soulless pieces of shit that wouldn't be missed even by their mothers if they failed to return home."
You should get modded up for that. No one has more accurately summarized the average Slashdot reader in one sentence before.
Show these idiots how the real world works. I do hope they get caught and put behind bars for a while.
I would expect that Hackers, which hobby? it is to compromise websites and servers and who should understand security standards and settings better then anyone else could protect their own shit!
Apparently not - and not only that, they even used their full personal name in the database!!! Wtf?!
So what kind of idiots are these? Maybe just a bunch of script kiddies trying to play the big league?
play stupid games win stupid prizes.
that implies the average Slashdot reader has ever left their mother's basement.
Funniest thing I've read all day
We aren't all bad. Umm... I would login but I am not supposed to be here. I figured out the wireless password. I am at rehab but I have my tablet. Still, some of us are good people. Hell, even I am reasonably good but I do like my junk.
Should we fell sorry for the hackers??
Should we laugh at them?
Should we run out and catch Pokemon while we can?
When that happened, LeakedSource started looking at the leaked data and discovered full names for three of PoodleCorp's members, saying they intend to share it with authorities. Soon after, PoodleCorp stopped the DDoS against LeakedSource and went to annoy Blizzard gamers.
I hope they are still going to share the info with the relevant authorities.
Oh yeah? I logged in to this Go stuff weeks ago using the official Pokemon login stuff. I have never been able to log in again. I'm not kidding, I have tried a handful of times over the last few weeks and it always says something about login failed or whatever bullshit to cover the fact that their servers are shit. Not that I would play this bullshit "game" in the first place but fucking hell, they can't even tempt me because their infrastructure sucks balls!
Team rocket, blasting off agaaaaaaiiiiinnnn!
Honestly, I think the most amusing thing is how much stupid there seems to be going on with PoodleCorp. Between some of the groups Pokemon Go is popular with and apparently having their real names locatable in this data dump...
Oh just wait until you discover a Reddit reader...enormous joy awaits you!
Pikachu will choke a bitch.
This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
These idiots are clearly committing criminal activity. Why do they have a website that's still up and running?
$ host poodlecorp.org
poodlecorp.org has address 104.27.159.87
Oh, I see why. I recognize that IP range.
NetRange: 104.16.0.0 - 104.31.255.255
CIDR: 104.16.0.0/12
NetName: CLOUDFLARENET
If CloudFlare would stop providing bulletproof hosting for criminals, maybe the internet would be a better place. But CloudFlare loves its criminal customers. DDoS purveyors, terrorist websites, CloudFlare doesn't care who infests its hive of scum and villainy. Maybe it's time to revive the concept of the Usenet Death Penalty and apply it to all traffic to and from CloudFlare. They're the sewer of the internet and should be null routed and de-peered.
See also: CloudFlare Watch
The words hackers and DDOS should never appear together.
The correct word is "wankers".
They're just wannabe /b/tards. They don't hack or even attack anything of consequence.
"Be particularly skeptical when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe." -
... unless you believe softpedia's breathless vapiditiy. They don't know jack but like to shout "hacker" a lot.
So these kids want to ruin other people's fun. So the other "hackers" in the computer industry, the ones shouting at each other about being "ETHICAL" and bickering about notional hat colour, do remarkably similar things and want to get paid for it, too. The pretext really is but very little different.
This "hacker" narrative is what keeps the s'kiddies in easy pay that make up the "computer security" industry. They tell tall tales of themselves heroically not solving any problem.
They do regularly "find" plenty more problems to "consult" about, write blogs about headed with pictures of themselves looking grave, and do other useful things like cook up entire websites for single exploits with cutesy names. And that's the "legal" ones. The ones like softpedia yaps about today are remarkably similar, only with more pimles in their faces and even less maturity. They sound pretty much the same, though.
So all that happens is s'kiddies, like those, like these, of many stripes, running around and being s'kiddies, but nothing actually improves. Some of these manage to cash in, legally or less so. None are "hackers" in any sense, certainly not the old one.
It really should be obvious by now that "hacker" doesn't mean anything any longer and calling any and all computer security problem a "hack" is similarly unhelpful. So stop doing it, sheeshle. Sheesh.
do you have Pokemon Go on your tablet? I'm told there's lots of rare pokemons in rehab centers.
lucm, indeed.
You know, these sorts of men (and they are always men) are young nerdy men who have been totally fucked over by society. With every breath, with every word, including your comment, society rejects them harshly. And they know it. Boy, do they get the message loud and clear. It's blatantly clear that they are worthless and might as well commit suicide.
Ya think that might have something to do with the way they turned out? If society hates you, you might as well hate back, right? I mean, it's the argument you're using and you're taking the moral high ground. And you openly wish for them to be raped. That's horrible, but sadly common.
Read your comment again and tell me about sociopathy?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Wtf is that bogemon shit everybody are talkin bout?
Some guy called Pookeyman. Apparently he's well into animal cruelty. He goes out and beats up wild animals, imprisons them and then makes them fight each other for his own amusement. It's quite dark really, not for kids.
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Translation: A bunch of self-centred sociopathic cunts want to fuck with peoples' fun because, well, they are heartless soulless pieces of shit that wouldn't be missed even by their mothers if they failed to return home.
I couldn't give a flying fuck about Pokemon Go, but these kinds of "hackers" really are worthless pieces of scum. I hope the lot of them end up being cornholed in prison endlessly, until they suffer incurable anal incontinence.
Don't hold back tell tell us how you really feel :D
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
Perhaps but where is the fun in that?
It is also worth noting that in several places including the US it is not unheard of for socially rejected young men to turn to physical violence against society. Harassing people online seems like a bit more socially adjusted response among some of the other options.
You know, these sorts of men (and they are always men) are young nerdy men who have been totally fucked over by society. With every breath, with every word, including your comment, society rejects them harshly. And they know it. Boy, do they get the message loud and clear. It's blatantly clear that they are worthless and might as well commit suicide.
Ya think that might have something to do with the way they turned out? If society hates you, you might as well hate back, right? I mean, it's the argument you're using and you're taking the moral high ground.
Read your comment again and tell me about sociopathy?
Wait, what??? If only "young nerdy men" had some sort of positive role models... examples of success by other young nerdy men in society... If only "nerd" could carry a more positive connotation than it has in the past... Are we back in the 90's?
Come play Moral Decay!
I'm sure the average Slashdot reader goes upstairs occasionally.
In short, you want them to suffer from a backdoor breach too?
You better collect those balls, I hear they're used for something in the game.
Did you ever confirm your email address? I thought I had, but it turned out that their servers were so overloaded at the time, it never went through. I had to go back, request a new confirmation email be sent, and then load the confirmation URL again.. and again.. and again.. until finally it went through. Then my account was fully activated. Turns out they do something weird where you can play for like 2 days without confirming your email address, then you're locked out until you confirm.
Yup, most psychic pokemon seem to show up at rehab or hospitals or water areas. I have an inpatient rehab clinic across the street from where I live, Abras and Alakazams everywhere there according to my fiance when he walks the perimeter.
Also, the speed limit is NOT 10MPH for egg hatching. Don't go above 20MPH (a hard flat-out run) and you're golden. I've hatched a bunch of pokemon for my fiance just by driving to my local mine using side streets.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
These guys are a bunch of script kiddies, and nothing actually resembling a cracker group.
Notice I didn't say hacker - they're not making useful and non-obvious improvements to a system as per the original definition coined by TMRC at MIT in the 50s.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Thanks to Pokemon Go, relieved elderly parents everywhere are changing the locks to their homes in a last ditch effort to rid themselves of their basement-dwelling manchildren.
"Never DDoS a man who can send a billion Pokemon hunters to your house at the click of a button" - William J. Greener, Jr. 1925
Total idiots.
I've only got seven of the 12 Legion handouts because of these jerks
I hope they run into traffic.
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lies.
Pokemon GO stories are cyber ops.
PoodleCorp got fleeced!
What?
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
Fucked over by society... GTFO, you mean life's not fair. I really miss the mentality of older generations. Now days kids pitch a bitch fit when life sucks and expect others to make their life easier. How about "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" Aand overcoming adversity.
No sympathy given to anyone born today, Life has improved tenfold since I've been alive and kids are complaining because healthcare and college isn't free. You have NO CLUE of hardship.
Because, of course, English words don't evolve in meaning over time. This is why when someone says they are gay, it just means they are happy as the word originally meant.
If that was on The Onion and emailed to my parents, theyâ(TM)d believe it.
fuck pokemon go. But lmfao these fags can hack isis though. Either way anonymous will destroy them on the spot lmfaooo
Because death is too good for them.
You can't make this shit up, this shit's comedy gold.