Hacking group Lulzsec (Lulz Security) targeted and successfully took down Eve-Online, Minecraft, League of Legends and gaming website The Escapist today as part of an operation it called #TitanicTakeoverTuesday. The first to go down was CCP's space MMO Eve-Online. Later in the day the company confirmed that it was having technical difficulties and had to take the service down entirely.
Likewise, The Escapist went down and is still down as of this writing. Mojang's popular indie game also suffered a serious attack, taking down its website and the game's online servers. Finally the group pointed its "Lulz Cannon" at Riot Games' online strategy RPG League of Legends. The target for that attack was the game's login server. Read More