Initially, Derp sent a few tweets using the
Twitter account “DerpTrolling” to indicate that he was going to bring down the popular gaming website
League of Legends. His first attack however, was on a game called
Quake Live. Hours afterwards, many of the
League of Legends game server regions in
North America,
Europe, and
Oceania, as well as the website and
internet forums were taken down. To bring down the game servers, he used an indirect attack on
Riot Games'
internet service provider Internap. He revealed to have been targeting a popular
livestreamer who goes by the name of PhantomL0rd on the streaming website
Twitch.
Reddit summarized the report by saying that he had planned to use
distributed denial of service attacks to flood traffic on various high-profile gaming websites associated with PhantomL0rd, including
League of Legends and
Blizzard Entertainment's
Battle.net. which the hacker carried out. However, he only crashed Phantoml0rd's game while other games in
DoTA 2 were running normally. When PhantomL0rd asked the hacker why he was attacking these sites, he responded by saying it was "
for the lulz" He also persuaded PhantomL0rd into playing
Club Penguin, The hacker group claimed to have additionally attacked several other Internet games and websites including
World of Tanks, the
North Korean news network
KCNA,
RuneScape,
Eve Online, a
Westboro Baptist Church website, the website and online servers of
Minecraft, and many others. A day after the attacks, Riot Games issued a statement confirming that their
League of Legends services had indeed been attacked by the hacker, though the hacker had brought their services back online. ==Aftermath and reaction==