Pokemon GO Crashes in US and UK, Players Freak Out

Gamers come unglued when hackers takes aim at their virtual critters

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Terror outbreaks, citizens uprising, army coup attempts and now an attack takes down Pokemon GO. What’s the world coming to?

A hacking group called Poodle Corp. has claimed responsibility for taking down Pokemon GO in one full swoop across parts of the U.S. and Europe using a DDOS attack, according to the Independent.

And, @PoodleCorp claimed on Twitter that this is just the beginning. “Just was a lil test, we will do something on a larger scale soon,” they boasted.

PoodleCorp has recently targeted high profile YouTubers such as Pewdiepie, according to Gearnuke.

A DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service, is a way troublemakers crash servers by flooding them with so many requests every second that they cannot cope.

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While Poodle Corp is taking credit for the collapse of service, it’s assumed by others that a crash was almost inevitable due to the worldwide out-roll of the application, which is currently available in 26 countries. Simply stated, too many people are playing all at the same time. Whatever the cause, gamers of all levels are rocked by the thought of a Pokemon GO-less weekend and hitting social media to speak their disgruntled minds.

Not to worry, world. The team at Pokemon GO are on the task.

Rosemary Rossi

Rosemary joined TheWrap in 2016 after more than two decades covering entertainment for American Media and Bauer Publishing as West Coast Editor and as the Hollywood Correspondent for Australia’s Horowitz Graham Publishing. In addition, she reviewed films and television, sized up trends and penned a weekly tongue-in-cheek column called “Hollywood’s Worst Ideas This Week” for…

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