EA Origin servers down, hacker group claims responsibility
EA’s digital PC storefront Origin is currently offline, and multiplayer linked to Origin IDs has also been intermittently affected, with online-only games like Star Wars: The Old Republic most troubled.
Individual game Twitter feeds, as well as EA’s core support account, have acknowledged the issue and assured users that the matter is under investigation, but provided no further information.
Hacker and troll group Derp has not been so reticent, claiming responsibility for bringing the service down, apparently via a DDOS attack.
The group has not explained its motivation for the attack, but a later comment suggests it sees Origin as an unnecessary rival to Steam.
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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2014/01/03/ea-origin-servers-down-hacker-group-claims-responsibility/
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IntPosted:
Lol they probably couldn't hack to save their lives, bunch of 12 year old kids, taking credit..
VeraPosted:
This is pointless they are doing it for attention, they should put there abilities to good use and help people out not by doing this.
KatsumiPosted:
-Mark I don't understand why the group decided to take down the servers. It makes me mad that people would take their own personal time to do something like this. Oh well, the servers weren't down for that long anyways.
I find it very stupid personally. Seeming that they actually took responsibility for it i guess it was for notoriety or something along those lines
iriisqxPosted:
-Mark I don't understand why the group decided to take down the servers. It makes me mad that people would take their own personal time to do something like this. Oh well, the servers weren't down for that long anyways.
I don't either, some people got way to much free time..
-DeanoPosted:
-Mark I don't understand why the group decided to take down the servers. It makes me mad that people would take their own personal time to do something like this. Oh well, the servers weren't down for that long anyways.
The whole situation was regarding a League of Legends streamer called PhantomL0rd orignally - This was a couple of days ago.
The group were taking down every game that he was playing.
The servers they took down consisted of:
NA LOL
EUW LOL
DOTA 2
Club Penguin
OCE LOL
There was one more but I can't remember what it is :$
I guess the group decided they want another shot at EA because they now knew that their attempts were successful.
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