An unknown hacker group called DERP has a very strange way of celebrating the new year – by taking down servers of famous online games. During the last few days, the hacker group managed to take down the servers of League of Legends, Dota, Battle.net, EA.Com and Club Penguin.
Everything started on the 30th of December when the twitter account of ‘DerpTrolling’ tweeted about their first target – the League of Legends servers. The NA/EU/OCE servers of LoL were then down for a few hours, but then got back up. However, DERP acquired a new target – DOTA, saying that if famous Twitch.tv streamer PhantomL0rd loses the match he was playing at that time, they will take down the servers. Unfortunately he did not manage to win, thus DERP attacked the DOTA servers and took them down.
Yesterday and today the attacks continued, as DERP took down some of the servers of Battle.NET, EA.com and Club Penguin. Their most recent target was the North American World of Tanks servers. Although, their attack was successful, currently all of the World of Tank servers are up and running. Official comments from the targeted companies haven’t been released.
As the story unfolds everyone starts to wonder why such huge servers don’t have a better DDOS protection and are the DERP hacker group that good?
GamerHeadlines will continue to follow the story as it unfolds.