The world’s largest online game hacker has been arrested

Hackers is a very familiar noun when day by day the virtual world constantly faces this problem that is still very painful. However, there are many types of Hackers, and the most common are probably those who develop Hack software and distribute them into the gaming community, allowing Cheaters to gain an advantage over genuine players.

But there is also another type of Hacker with a much larger target than the Hackers we often see. There, instead of making a profit from the game, they want to directly destroy that game and completely deprive the community of the opportunity to experience it. The most common method of these Hackers is to perform DDoS – Denial of Service Attack, to make the game’s server system overloaded and unable to provide a connection to players.
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With World of Warcraft – Title MMORPG considered the most terrorist today, facing this dangerous Hacker component is quite often. Most notably, many World of Warcraft server clusters have been offline for hours after being the target of continuous DDoS attacks. The consequences of this incident are to affect millions of gamers and certainly have a significant impact on Blizzard’s revenue.

Fortunately, Blizzard’s cybersecurity team immediately worked with local and international police to track down the DDoS incident. And after only a few days, the investigation had results when a Blizzard representative officially announced:

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Although we do not share more information about the arrested suspect, from this incident we can see that finding the culprit in DDoS attacks has made much more progress than before. Often in previous times Blizzard as well as the authorities it took many months or even years to bring the culprit to light.​