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Old 01-03-2014, 05:09 PM   #8059
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Several online networks and digital providers have been recently attacked by hackers with the biggest being from a group called DERP.

The attacks appeared to have started with League of Legends and recently spread to include Battle.net, Steam, and Origin. These attacks have also targeted individual gaming streamers with at least one known instance so far.

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Right now Steam is reportedly experiencing a DDoS attack, but their woes are one of many across the online gaming industry. Yesterday, EA’s Origin service found itself in a very similar situation and over the break; services like Battle.NET and the League of Legends servers were taken down. A hacker collective known as DERP is claiming these actions, along with some other rogue agents, all in an attempt to fuck with a single-gamer named Phantomlord.
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An online group or person going by the name DERP claims to have launched a DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack on EA’s login servers, which took its Origin service offline for several hours earlier this morning.

During the outage players were unable to access several EA games on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, mobile, and PC, including Battlefield 4, FIFA 14, The Simpsons Tapped Out, and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The attack began at around 7 p.m. PST last night, with DERP claiming to have aimed the “Gaben Laser Beam” at the EA login servers on Twitter. DERP also attacked several other games and services earlier this week, including Dota 2, League of Legends, and Battle.net. “We’ve directed the Gaben Laser Beam™ @ the EA login servers. Origin,” the group/person wrote.
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