As Niantic rolled out Pokemon Go to 26 additional countries over the weekend, it’s easy to assume the rush of new players was to blame for recent server issues according to an article by PCmag
But hacking collective OurMine may have also played a part. The group—famous for infiltrating the social media accounts of Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey, among others—claimed responsibility for the popular game going offline on Sunday.
As an OurMine member told PCMag via email, the three-person team is “just trying to protect [companies’] servers.”
“We wrote we will stop the attack if any [Niantic] staff talked with us, because we will teach them how to protect their servers,” the anonymous representative said.
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