‘Pokemon Go’ Servers Down — DDOS Attack Claimed On July 16

Now that people across the U.S. and Europe have fallen in love with Pokémon Go, the Pokémon Go app is experiencing problems with its servers. Pokémon Go has been freezing often, according to Pokémon Go players. Many Pokémon Go players report having to close the app and open Pokémon Go again to try to gain their beloved Pokéballs.

As reported by the Independent, Pokémon Go players began to have problems with Pokemon Go — and now the Pokémon Go servers are being blamed for the addictive game not being able to be accessed by some players.

As seen in the below Twitter update from the official international Pokémon Twitter account, the most recent Pokémon news reports that Pokémon Go players can rest assured that the Pokémon Go servers are being worked on. The Pokémon Go app reached out to Pokémon Go “trainers” and let them know on Saturday, July 16, that the Pokémon Go server issues would be fixed and updates about Pokémon Go would be sent soon.

Trainers! We have been working to fix the #PokemonGO server issues. Thank you for your patience. We'll post an update soon.

— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) July 16, 2016

As Pokémon Go servers are believed to be down without knowing how long the Pokémon Go servers would be down, a hacking group has said they are the ones responsible for taking down Pokémon Go.

As reported by the Independent, PoodleCorp says they are the group that has taken down Pokémon Go using a DDOS attack. DDOS stands for distributed denial of service, which means hackers use a number of different locations with various IP addresses to make it seem like the Pokémon Go servers are so busy that the influx of hits can’t be handled by the server.

DDOS attacks can crash servers until the problem is recognized and rectified.

It isn’t the first time that the Pokémon Go servers have experienced problems. Pokémon Go servers also crashed during the early part of July due to so many Pokémon Go players trying to jump on the app and play.

With Pokémon Go recently launching on Thursday in the U.K., Pokémon Go is gaining more users for the app.

Pokémon Go also continues to dominate the news about odd happenings sometimes going on surrounding the game. One man played Pokémon Go, according to the Independent, while he was driving. As seen in the above photo, such distracted driving caused the Pokémon Go player to crash his car into a tree in New York on Friday.

Pokémon Go players can be seen in the top photo above from Thursday, July 14, as they played near Goodale Park in Columbus, Ohio. Pokémon Go “lures” are a strategy that will be used by Democrats to attract voters in the park and on college campuses around the country.

Meanwhile, the fact that Pokémon Go is experiencing server problems has caused folks to turn to social media to vent under hashtags like “Pokémon Go problems” or “Pokémon Go down” and such. A sampling of such comments about Pokémon Go from social media can be seen below.

“Plans to go on a Pokemon hunt then they decide to crash the servers. #PokemonGO #pokemonproblems”

“Pokemon go is back up, logged back in and all my data is gone..help? #PokemonGO #pokemonproblems #pokemonhelp.”

“Someone on the #PokemonGo subreddit had a great idea. If servers are down, enable an offline pokeball throwing mini-game for practice.”

“It’s hard to be a pokemon master when the servers are down. #PokemonProblems.”

“Pupster sees no point to dog park when #PokemonGO servers are down. #pokemonproblems.”

“With #PokemonGO servers down what am I supposed to do? Walk through this sunny park aimlessly and without purpose? #pokemonproblems.”

“Get off work ready to walk 10k to hatch some eggs only to find servers down. #pokemongo #pokemonproblems.”

[Photo by Julie Carr Smyth/AP Images]