Pokemon Go down: OurMine hacking group claims credit for latest attack on game

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A group of hackers took down Pokmon Go to try and make the buggy game more stable, they have said.

The attack hit Pokmon Gos login servers, making it all but impossible for players to get online.

Now famous hacking group OurMine said that they launched an attack that made Pokmon Go unavailable for much of the weekend. It came just a day after another hacking group, Poodlecorp, took the app down in a similar attack and was launched in response to it, hackers affiliated to OurMine said.

The hacking group which has become famous for hacking into celebrity Twitter accounts like Jack Dorseys hopes that their attack on the app can help show the developers behind Pokmon Go that the app should be made secure.

The problems over the weekend were just the most extreme version of connectivity issues that have blighted Pokmon Go ever since it was launched. Many users have struggled to get online, and the games international rollout has been staggered to try and allow developers to cope with the huge amount of interest in playing.

The group said that it was carrying out the attack to force developers to get in touch with them.

No one will be able to play this game till Pokemon Go contact us on our website to teach them how to protect it! the group wrote on its website.

Another hacker claiming to be part of the group said that the attack had been launched after the huge outage caused by a group called Poodlecorp, on Saturday. OurMine wanted to help those behind Pokmon Go make the game more stable so that it wouldnt be attacked in the future, the group said.

The group makes money from charging for vulnerability assessment, where hackers attempt to break into corporate networks to check how safe they are.

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But a Twitter user claiming to be a representative said over direct message that the group wasnt requesting money from those behind Pokmon Go, and that OurMine just dont want other hackers [to] attack their servers.

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