BobJones23 Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Not at all a car game at all, but I figured I'd start a discussion about it. AS of about 24 hours ago or so, a person/group by the name of "HOICSquad" tweeted "At 2am GMT @Hypixel (a minecraft server for those who don't know) will be punished via DDoS." The page has been suspended from Twitter since. For those who don't know, DDoS stands for Disributed Denial of Service. What happens is a server is overloaded with information sent by the DDoS'er, causing it to crash. The "HOIC" in "HOICSquad" is a reference to the program most likely used to launch this attack, "High-Orbit Ion Cannon" (Google it if you want information.) It started with the 2 biggest servers in Minecraft. Hypixel, one of them, was DDoS'ed and crashed. The majority of server traffic went over to Mineplex, crashing that. It was an unintended side effect of the DDoS. As of 4.5 hrs ago HOICSquad somehow took down the main Mojang (Minecraft's developer) authentication server, shutting down every server in existence. Thats all that has really happened since. Sorry for shoving a lot of info into one post, but if anyone semi-actively plays Minecraft, what are your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemko Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Good. Minecraft sucks. I'm surprised this hadn't happened earlier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobJones23 Posted July 23, 2015 Author Share Posted July 23, 2015 Well then. Either way, if no one cares, I just wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts. Screw it, I'm gonna keep posting info as i get it. As of about 5 minutes ago, somehow the entire website was brought down too, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFrosting Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 MineCraft can suck my....... Rigs of Rods Monster Jam skill. Oh well, MineCraft was bound to be put in it's place eventually. don't feel bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobJones23 Posted July 23, 2015 Author Share Posted July 23, 2015 Well, as no one on this website seems to give a s*it about Minecraft, lock the topic or delete it. I frankly don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkelly Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I like Minecraft, I just don't use servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Th3cam Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 lizard squad strikes again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outlawed Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 The sad state of the matter is that even if they get caught the punishment for DDOS'ing is basically nothing. Even a couple of the idiots from Lizard Squad that got caught were punished with a slap on the hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverWolf Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Well, as no one on this website seems to give a s*it about Minecraft... I care about it...just never used the servers. Seems like I'll be waiting a bit longer now. I appreciate Minecraft immensely. Helps relieve stress on finals weeks. It really is unfortunate that at the end of the day, no real punishment will be handed out, as stated before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemko Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 ^boo this man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavySonicShell Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 ^boo this man I'll refrain. Minecraft can be fun every now and then to play with your friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemko Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 ^boo this man as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoomBaby Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I'll refrain. Minecraft can be fun every now and then to play with your friends. except when you BLOW UP MY HOUSE 3 TIMES 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRetroStyle Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 APPLAUSE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKM Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Demko, did someone leave you in a salt shaft? except when you BLOW UP MY HOUSE 3 TIMES Turn it into a trap that only you can work around. Minecraft can be fun but for me personally it's a game I play for a few months and then forget I have it for a few months. Just about every major game seems to get DDoS'd these days, I wouldn't be shocked one bit if they went after Valve at some point in all honesty. It's pure stupidity at work, thousands of people possibly hundreds of thousands or even millions in some cases are being punished by these idiots for no reason, it's not going to hurt the game/company for anything longer than a short period and then after that they will grow from the free publicity that they'll get from news of them being attacked spreading. If they really want to play the hacking game I can think of hundreds of places they could start although if they get caught by them they likely will never be heard from again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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