Hacker Group DERP Takes Down Multiple Online Gaming Servers

A hacker group called DERP has intermittently taken down multiple gaming sites and servers today. Riot Games' League of Legends servers took the brunt of the attack, as the NA/EU/OCE servers have been down for a good portion of the day, as was the LoL website and forums. The group also managed to take down the Dota 2 servers for a while, as well as Club Penguin, Battle.net, and EA.com.

DERP began the DDoS attacks with a few Tweets about League of Legends:

They then began cyber-terrorizing other sites, including Battle.net:

After which they began to speak with PhantomL0rd, a popular streamer on Twitch. He was playing a game of Dota 2 and they reached out to him to say if he lost the game they would take down Dota 2. He didn't win.

They also got bored at some point and took down EA's website.

Later in the day, DERP convinced PhantomL0rd to play Club Penguin, which turned out to be a mistake on his part:

PhantomL0rd, who streamed most of the series of events, asked DERP what their main objectives were. "For the lulz," they responded. They also mentioned their dismay of money hungry companies. At the time of this writing, PhantomL0rd had to step away from his computer as he believed police officers were coming to his home.

No word yet from Riot Games, Blizzard, EA, or any of the assaulted sites. As we hear more we'll be sure to update this story.

• A group called DERP is apparently DDoSing League of Legends NA/EU/OCE servers. They also took down Dota 2, Club Penguin, Battle.net, EA.com. They are taking down whatever game Phantoml0rd is playing (or perhaps, trying to play rolf). Most recent event is Phantoml0rd playing on OCE with stream fans and they took it down. On behalf of the League of Legends situation, it seems like they are directly attacking Internap network, Riot's service provider.
  
  
• Phantoml0rd is going to talk with them on skype vent soon. Watch the stream if you would like to see more. EDIT: Conversation done. You can find it in my post under the "Stream events".
  
  

• [5:15PM] Phantoml0rd is currently in contact with the DERP group. You can see the conversation on the stream.
  
  
• [5:22PM] Conversation disconnected. Here's a screenshot
  
  
• [5:23PM] Conversation back up on Phantoml0rd stream
  
  
• [5:25PM] Conversation disconnected again. A screenshot of the second part
  
  
• [5:35PM] Phantoml0rd starting playing Dota 2. If he loses they win take down Dota 2 again. If he wins they won't. Screenshot
  
  
• [6:02PM] Dota 2 is offline again.
  
  
• [6:20PM] 100,000 viewers!
  
  
• [6:22PM] Vent server back up again. PhantomL0rd is in direct contact with DERP again!
  
  
• [6:35PM] Vent server went offline. Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2 and Screenshot 3 of the conversation.
  
  
• [6:50PM] PhantomL0rd is now playing League of Legends on Oceania server. Will it go offline again? We shall see.
  
  
• [7:08PM] It seems like OCE is having trouble again. PhantomL0rd got disconnected from his game.
  
  
• [7:15PM] PhatomL0rd AFK. A moderator of the stream said "The cops were called to his house for a hostage situation".
  
  
• [7:25PM] Even the Twitch staff are concerned now. They are on PhantomL0rd stream chat and banning whoever post disclosed information such as DOX.
  
  
• [7:28PM] PhantomL0rd confirmed the cops are at his home. Screenshot proof 1 and Second Screenshot
  
  
• [7:35PM] Stream is OFFLINE. Apparently Twitch took it down. About more than 140,000 viewers have been spectating the stream.
  
  

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