Hackers knock League of Legends offline

[Jazzy]

Hugely popular online game League of Legends (LoL) was knocked offline for a few hours on 30 December by hackers.

It was one of several games and social media sites targeted by the Derp hacking group.

Reports suggest the attack was more mischievous than malicious and was partly aimed at US pro-gamer James Varga.

The Derp hacking group claimed responsibility for the attack on League of Legends and Mr Varga, aka PhantomL0rd via its Twitter account.

The attack began early on Monday with the group bombarding US and European servers with huge amounts of data to knock them offline. Later in the day the game's Asian servers were knocked offline with the same tactic.

The group switched its focus to Mr Varga who had been documenting LoL's ongoing problems and the Derp group's claim of responsibility via his daily Twitch TV video stream.

Twitch TV is a streaming service that lets people share their live gaming experiences with others. LoL is by far the most popular game watched via Twitch.

Mr Varga's interaction with Derp led it to pursue him through every game he tried to play. By the time the attack was done, the Derp group had caused intermittent problems for people using EA.com. Blizzard's Battlenet, Dota 2, Quake Live, Club Penguin, Reddit and other sites.

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Have you ever heard of this Mr Varga? Were you playing when it got knocked off line?

 

[Nebulous]

Game downtime gives kiids the opportunity to go play outside for once!

 

[Kirito]

Don't know him or play LoL.

...kinda find it funny though. They must've been raging getting their LoL taken away from them.

 

[LegendHidden]

never heard of him

 

[Evil Eye]

Like the servers aren't under enough stress with some idiots messing things up :glare:

Game downtime gives kiids the opportunity to go play outside for once!

Doesn't work that way

 

[Jazzy]

Game downtime gives kiids the opportunity to go play outside for once!

Do kids do that anymore?

 

[Evil Eye]

Do kids do that anymore?

Yes, they do.