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Hackers harass League of Legends livestreamer with DDoS attacks and police calls
A vendetta against a livestreamer has caused real-world havoc. A user or group identifying itself as DERP has targeted a popular Twitch streamer, calling the police on him and performing DDoS attacks against the games he was playing on December 30th. The streamer's name is James Varga, and according to reports, the games he was broadcasting were shut down by hackers performing distributed denial of service attacks. These games included League of Legends, Dota 2, and those through Battle.net. Varga continued to communicate with DERP during this time, and either DERP or a third party escalated matters by calling 911 and claiming that Varga was holding hostages in his home. Varga was then briefly detained while the police searched his home, but he was released without charges. This is similar to an incident earlier last month when a World of Warcraft livestreamer was arrested after someone called the police on him to interrupt his stream.
The Daily Grind: What was your dumbest move?
We all like to think of ourselves as relatively intelligent. While most of us are well aware that we will not be proving string theory within the next month or so (exceptions made for some of our readers), we'd like to think that we know what we're doing most of the time. Of course, then there's the time that we complain in-game for the better part of a week about how a quest is broken, and then find out that if you just turn left when you walk into the town you'll see the quest objective clear as day. Let's be honest with ourselves, we've all had moments when we've done something searingly dumb. Maybe it's something useful we've overlooked, maybe it's something obvious that we didn't catch, or maybe it's simply a case of not reading the darn manual. Whatever led up to your personal moment of derp, what was your moment of being really dumb in-game? Did you laugh about it or get angry at the time? And most importantly, did it change your opinion of watching others do similarly dumb things by accident? Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of our readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's The Daily Grind!
