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The Derp Group - Online Term Paper

The Derp Group

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 ...

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suspect DERP for the PSN’s current problems, which is more to do with the huge influx of new PS4 owners and increased holiday online activity.

Update: DERP has also targeted World of Tanks North America, North Korea’s state run news agency kcna.kp, LoLKing.com, mca.lwcc.org, EveOnline.com, Minecraft.net, Runescape.com, godhatesfags.com, forums.station.sony.com, soe.com and PlanetSide ...

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Added: 4/7/2014 01:04:31 PM
Submitted By: TheAvenger321
Category: Technology
Type: Free Paper
Words: 280
Pages: 2

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