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    Lizard Squad targets Blizzard in cyber attack

    Blizzard are struggling to deal with a DDoS attack which is reportedly the work of the notorious Lizard Squad.

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    Why are they attacking blizzard?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weasley View Post
    Why are they attacking blizzard?
    Because it sounds too much like Lizard, and they're getting sick of losing the publicity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weasley View Post
    Why are they attacking blizzard?
    I'm guessing it has something to do with the shut down of the Vanilla WoW server. Though I would prefer Murfles theory

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grievous View Post
    I'm guessing it has something to do with the shut down of the Vanilla WoW server. Though I would prefer Murfles theory
    What do you mean ? There never was an official Vanilla WoW server, or do you mean the idea of it? Or did Blizzard get a private Vanilla WoW server shut down?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crableg View Post
    What do you mean ? There never was an official Vanilla WoW server, or do you mean the idea of it? Or did Blizzard get a private Vanilla WoW server shut down?
    It's been one of the big news items this last week, they forced the biggest private server to shut down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crableg View Post
    What do you mean ? There never was an official Vanilla WoW server, or do you mean the idea of it? Or did Blizzard get a private Vanilla WoW server shut down?
    There was a private vanilla WoW server called Nostalrius that was shut down by Blizzard for operating outside its specific rules, it was one of the only places to play vanilla WoW I believe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grievous View Post
    It's been one of the big news items this last week, they forced the biggest private server to shut down.
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    There was a private vanilla WoW server called Nostalrius that was shut down by Blizzard for operating outside its specific rules, it was one of the only places to play vanilla WoW I believe.
    Ah is see, yeah that would piss a lot of people off.

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    No idea who this guy is, but he explains pretty well what is going on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzT8...ature=youtu.be

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    Lizard Squad: The notoriously angry nerds.

    Why not steal buttloads of cash instead? Why just DDoS people? Seriously, what incentive is there to just wanna piss off groups without a good score to take.

    So all they can do is flood people with copious amounts of meaningless data. F*** sake, if I'm gonna hack into your sh**, I'd wanna make a motherf****** profit out the deal. IMO.
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