Ok so Lulzsec ddosd the escapist...

[marcooos]

According to the bbc news website lulzsec has ddosd the escapist.....

Did this happen or are they making shit up?
(and sorry cant link as am on phone but the article is on the bbc news website under the technology heading)

Edit: link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13777129

Edit 2: There we go I've changed the title so can people please stop calling me out on the bbc news thing?

 

[Cheesus333]

No, that actually happened.

...Was that seriously on the BBC?

 

[Phishfood]

Yes it happened. Site was down for a while. As was minecraft and eve.

 

[marcooos]

Yeah i literally just read it hang on gimme a sec to get to my lappy to link it

 

[xitel]

Yes, it happened yesterday. It was all over their twitter. Thanks to the IT staff here at the Escapist, it's been dealt with.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

It happened, last night around this time or a bit later I think.


And oh my god we're popular! ;D

 

[Genixma]

According to the bbc news website lulzsec has ddosd the escapist.....

Did this happen or are they making shit up?
(and sorry cant link as am on phone but the article is on the bbc news website under the technology heading)

twitter.com/lulzsec

see for yourself.
They've admitted bringing escapist down.

And speaking of not trust the BBC I gotta now put this up

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgt6HuGS5k
-runs-

 

[tthor]

wow, i didn't realize the escapist would even be on that guy's radar

 

[Baradiel]

Yeh, Escapist went down, along with Eve, LoL, Minecraft, and some software companies site.

I'm honestly surprised there isn't some announcement or something. I honestly expected one.

I was confused by the "Titanic Tuesday Takedown" of whatever the hell it was called. They targeted sites deliberately to irritate gamers. You know, the vast majority of their support?

I know they did it for the 'Lulz', but there should be at least some reasoning behind it.

Oh, and if the BBC became untrustworthy, there would be NO reliable source of news. And the ddos attacks were on the BBC?

 

[marcooos]

It happened, last night around this time or a bit later I think.


And oh my god we're popular! ;D

It happened while we were all at lunch. Jerks.

 

[AngryMongoose]

Aye. Apparently we we being rude to them, and hurt deir widdle feewings.

They're currently "Taking requests" for targets, and using nothing but DDoS attacks, meaning they're neither working at any political goal nor achieving anything clever and pointing out security flaws. They're motivated by nothing but sadism. Sorry. A will to do things "For teh Evulz"

Also, you trusted BBC news? Really?

 

[Hawkmoon269]

Edit: no long calls out on the BBC bashing

 

[TheIronRuler]

Yeah, the site was down for a few hours, but it went back online and it seems that information was left intact. I hope so.
Besides that, the BBC is a very trustworthy news outlet. Don't trust the french news outlets though, because I've seen some obscure and utterly false shit fly under their radar.

 

[marcooos]

Aye. Apparently we we being rude to them, and hurt deir widdle feewings.

They're currently "Taking requests" for targets, and using nothing but DDoS attacks, meaning they're neither working at any political goal nor achieving anything clever and pointing out security flaws. They're motivated by nothing but sadism. Sorry. A will to do things "For teh Evulz"

Also, you trusted BBC news? Really?

Not really I just sorta needed people to post to tell me if it happened so i put up a name that grabs attention. And they Ddosd the escapist why? I thought they'd like a site like this :/

 

[DEAD34345]

Yeah... that really happened.

If you really want a reason to distrust the BBC, have a look at this video:

Best april fools joke ever.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

It happened, last night around this time or a bit later I think.


And oh my god we're popular! ;D

It happened while we were all at lunch. Jerks.

That's a low blow, I was pretty confused actually, I cleaned my registries like 5 minutes before the attack, and then when I went on, I was afraid my PC had fucked up and deleted my access to the server, then when it got back online, my connection to the Escapist kept on timing out.

And also, checking BBC's article it says this:

The organisations and companies that it targets are often portrayed as having acted against the interests of citizens or consumer

This isn't something I could picture the Escapist doing, so why would they take us down?

Unless there's a conspiracy!

 

[CoverYourHead]

So THAT'S why League of Legends was down! Damn you lulzSec! DAMN YOU TO HELL!

 

[Alexlion]

Yup its true not all of the escapist community agreed with them so they attacked the site.