Pokémon Go down, target of DDoS attack

People the world over are heartbroken, forlorn, just not seeing the point of it all anymore.

And who can blame them? Pokémon Go has been down or playable only sporadically all weekend, target of a distributed denial of service attack. But who would be so callous as to hit Pokémon Go?

In IT Blogwatch, we gotta catch all the answers.

So what exactly is going on? And who is behind this? Kate Conger gives us the background:

Having trouble logging in to Pokémon Go this weekend? You’re not alone.
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A hacking team called OurMine has spent the past several hours hitting Pokémon Go...with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, leaving some players frustrated and unable to log in.
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But OurMine isn’t the only group trying to knock the popular game offline...Poodle Corp also claimed to have attacked Pokemon Go this weekend.

Both groups are claiming DDoS attacks. But what are the makers of Pokémon Go saying? Not a whole lot. Shaun Lee explains what is going on:

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