Looks like some of the biggest MMO's are getting a hammering.

EVE Online is currently down
Im told LoL is down (or was) and WoW has been having trouble too. anyone have any experience with anywhere else?

I'm playing EU right now, no problems there.

DDoS, or just just loads of people logging on to say "Happy new year!"?

Well that just sucks. I may be the chief grinch / curmudgeon around here, but pissing people off for your own power trip. Bunch of wankers.

It happens, not the first time, wont be the last time.

Im just curious to see what other MMO's are getting attacked. EVE is the only one I play

Runescape was also DDoS'ed earlier today. Looks like someone really hates MMORPGs.

I doubt its that, more likely just trying to get as much publicity etc as they can and causing annoyance. Not a great tie to do it though. at this time of day EVE was about 20 000 players lower than normal due to new years eve.

Thats my guess anyway

A hacker group going by the name of ‘DERP’ has targeted a bunch of online gaming servers for what appears to be a bit of ‘fun’.

Talking through their Twitter account, it seems like DERP decided to follow popular Twitch streamer PhantomL0rd and crash every game he was in, as well as randomly targeting a few sites. DERP took down League of Legends, Battle.net, EA.com and Club Penguin, with each of the services now up and down intermittently. PhantomL0rd talked to members of the group, who said they were doing it “for the lulz”.

Then, apparently, the police raided PhantomL0rd’s house, with the gamer saying:


just had an automatic pointed at me, put in hand cuffs and sat in the back of a cop car as I watched as 6 policemen go through my whole house.. will keep you all updated.

As far as we can tell, DERP has mostly been DDoSing the gaming companies – a distributed denial-of-service attack, where servers are overloaded by tons of activity – the approach used by Anonymous to bring down the PSN, as well as by LulzSec to bring down Sony websites, rather than the more sophisticated techniques unknown hackers used to infiltrate the PSN.