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Pokemon Go DDoS Attacks Postponed As PoodleCorp Botnet Suffers Security Breach (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the every-action-has-an-equal-and-opposite-reaction dept.

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.

2 of 97 comments (clear)

  1. Good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Show these idiots how the real world works. I do hope they get caught and put behind bars for a while.

  2. CloudFlare is proudly aiding these criminals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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