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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.
"The hacking crew [PoodleDrumpf] that promised to launch DDoS attacks on the Pokedrumpf 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 LeakedDrumpf," reports Softpedia. "PoodleDrumpf responded to LeakedDrumpf's announcement with what they knew best, a DDoS attack." When that happened, LeakedDrumpf started looking at the leaked data and discovered full names for three of PoodleDrumpf's members, saying they intend to share it with authorities. Soon after, PoodleDrumpf stopped the DDoS against LeakedDrumpf and went to annoy Blizzdrumpf gamers. "It's a terrible idea to attack a business that knows something about virtually everybody," a LeakedDrumpf spokesperson said.
Well... that's interesting.
Now the question is, is this legit?
I am on the road to utopia, suckers!
A twat
I love it when 2 entities i don't like combat each other, no matter the outcome, i'm a winner
Show these idiots how the real world works. I do hope they get caught and put behind bars for a while.
HaHa!
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.
Funniest thing I've read all day
Cut off their fingers and force feed them back.
If they do it again, find something else to cut off and feed them.
Repeat until they stop due to lesson learned or lack of appendages or death.
Digest Digits or Stop
And feed it to the dogs.
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.
Team rocket, blasting off agaaaaaaiiiiinnnn!
Wtf is that bogemon shit everybody are talkin bout?
DDoSing isn't hacking. Please stop pretending it is.
Pikachu will choke a bitch.
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".
... 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.
"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.
You can't make this shit up, this shit's comedy gold.