Club Penguin, along with other games including World of Warcraft and League of Legends, as well as the Electronic Arts site and several others are currently or were being DDoSed by a Hacker Group calling themselves DERP during a daylong rampage.
The attacks seem to be related or possibly even in conjunction with Twitch.tv game streamer phantoml0rd, who has been communicating with the hackers and has now been called away in some sort of police incident.
Link to stream (still some active discussion and possibility streamer will return).
Link to Kotaku article.
Link to Reddit thread trying to figure out what happened.
As of right now there is a lot of confusion, rumors about possible zombie servers on League of Legends that take credit card numbers are spreading, and the Twitch.tv stream has been taken down as a precaution. Club Penguin itself appears to be fine, but the status remains unknown at this time.
EDIT: Additional rumors are now stating that another hacking group has begun DOXing the DERP hackers.
EDIT 2: Some forums on Reddit are having difficulties, DERP rumored as the culprit.
EDIT 3: PhantomL0rd has stated that he had an automatic weapon pointed at him by police, was handcuffed, and his house was searched in response to an alleged call about a hostage situation.
This is a developing story. Stay tuned for more details.
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