WG NA DDOS’ed?

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2911677.html

Hello everyone,

so here’s an interesting piece of info. As you know, some idiots calling themselves DERP DDOS’ed yesterday (or day before – depending on your timezone) several major games and their servers, bringing them down. Amongst the servers attacked were DOTA2, LOL, Battle.net, EA.com and…. World of Tanks NA apparently.

Why did they do it? I have no idea, something about some game streamer PhandomL0rd and games he played. In other words, they did it because they were douches. In the aftermath of the event, FBI got involved due to significant monetary losses of the action and considering the fact Americans take cybercrime very seriously, I’d say those guys are pretty screwed.

Either way, here is DERP claiming that they brought Wargaming NA down:

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And here’s Wargaming, tweeting about the servers in the US working fine:

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So, where’s the truth? Did DERP really bring WG NA servers down? Well, IGN seems to think so. For a short while anyway.

34 thoughts on “WG NA DDOS’ed?

  1. EU1 had problems yesterday as well (xvm ping showing as “Error”, tanks moving on their own, etc). It looked a like DDOS was happening for a while but failed to crash it.

    • EU1 properly crashed yesterday morning – games stuck on ‘awaiting players’ and then kicked you out to garage after 60 seconds, tanks themselves were locked for about half an hour.

  2. Short after midnight EU1 wasn’t responding too, due to “scheduled maintenance” – maybe true, because EU2 was working fine.

    • I started my last game of the year on EU1 at 23:43 CET, and after about 4 minutes I got kicked back to the garage. Some other guy on Circon’s stream also mentioned it. Too bad, I was hoping for a nice closing game, probably ended with a 0 damage loss :(

      • I was playing from 22 to 01 o’clock between 31 and 01 and nothing lukÄ™ this hepened to me

  3. These kiddies got outed by another group that got pissed that they intervened with their LoL games and full info like name, adress and phone number was revealed in a pastebin only a few hours after the incidents.

  4. The NA server barely even hiccupped. Apparently LoL went down for quite awhile but all they managed to do to the WoT server is make it laggy for a few minutes. I had to check the tweet again to make sure I read it right when it said they took the server down because I was still logged in and had been for hours, as well as there being 32k other people on. I’m don’t know if they weren’t trying very hard or if they underestimated the WoT servers but in this particular case they failed pretty hard.

  5. This Phantoml0rd guy also had cops in front of his door, someone claimed on the phone that he held someone hostage in his house. These hackers also leaked the details of his home live, causing people to send pizza’s to his house as a joke.

    Some people claim that it could be some sort of publicity stunt, Phantoml0rd doubled his viewer count during the event.

    • Pizza to his door? Lol think about some big streamer, like some LoL streamer thats got 10k viewers, and like 100 people would order pizza to his door. He be like “ermegerd, imma streaming, i dont want fuckin pizza” That’d be hilarious.

  6. Hmm…so maybe that’s why EU servers were so laggy this midnight…I had enourmous lag spikes but had no problem with the network itself.

  7. For the WG NA servers, i remember on Monday Night/ Early Tuesday Morning having problems logging back into the East server. I was already in, but it kicked me and was saying stuff like server down. But i tired to log into to the West server,after a few minutes i was able to log in and it work. The wired part was i was trying to log into the east server, i had a clan mate still in there and playing normally.

  8. They were chewing on the EvE servers yesterday. Idiot children with nothing better to do than knock down games, though I’m not too broken up about them hitting EA.com.

  9. I got disconnected from the East server late Monday night during a battle. I couldn’t switch to the west server because my tank was in the battle, but i waited 5 minutes and i could get back in. When i tried logging in it said “server is busy”. So yeah, it worked for NA East at least. On the whole, it reminded me of trying to log into the test servers, but with a shorter wait. :)