Tuesday 2 August 2016

Hackers have taken down the hackers trying to take down Pokemon Go

Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they don’t wear anything at all.

Maybe we’re projecting a little based on our experience of working late nights on a computer by ourselves (enjoy that image, readers) but the point remains, sometimes we find saviours in the unlikeliest of places.

When the Pokemon Go servers went down on July 16, hacker group PoodleCorp took responsibility for the outage and then threatened something on a larger scale to take place on August 1.

But if you played Pokemon Go yesterday you might have realised that (besides the updates to the app causing some pretty big issues) the game was working pretty much as usual.

That’s because something wonderful happened to ensure that we all got our fill of fictional personal monsters.

In a move so meta it would make Dan Harmon’s head spin, the hackers were hacked themselves by another group of hackers, who appear to view the first set of hackers as the hacks of the hacking world. For the full article click here 

 



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