Hackers are going to take down Pokemon GO on 1st of August

Pokemon GO has become a pop culture phenomenon. It is all over the internet. With all this spotlight on Pokemon GO, the hackers are bound to take notice.

On Saturday, game's servers, already bogged down with massive number of downloads, were taken down by hacker group called PoodleCorp through DDoS attack. Niantic, the developer of the game said it was due to huge number downloads that the server went down but the hacker group claimed otherwise.

We recently reported that Pokemon GO has become the most popular mobile game in U.S. history surpassing Candy Crush, these attacks are inevitable. Here is the tweet.

PokemonGo #Offline #PoodleCorp

PoodleCorp (@PoodleCorp) July 16, 2016

Everyone seems to be trying to benefit from the spotlight that Pokemon GO is getting and the hackers being huge attention seeker now claim that they will take down the servers again on 1st of August.

August 1st #PoodleCorp #PokemonGo

PoodleCorp (@PoodleCorp) July 18, 2016

The group has a history of attacking YouTube channels and League of Legends.

Apparently, they have got nothing to do with Pokemon GO or its fan, they are just here to get mainstream attention. That's all.

Pokemon GO has not been released internationally yet but you can download and install apk from here. Go Catch'Em all.

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Pokemon GO surpassed Candy Crush to become the most popular mobile game in U.S. history

The craze of Pokemon GO has taken all over the world even in countries where it is not yet available and now has surpassed Candy Crush to become the most popular game in U.S. 

Even in countries where it is not yet available, fans in one way or another have installed and started playing. Pokemon GO has become an insanely popular phenomenon. Some people are getting annoyed by it but you have to deal with it because nothing like it has happened before.

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The question is how massive has this game is. We finally have some numbers.

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According to SurveyMonkey, Pokemon GO has surpassed Draw Something and Candy Crush to become the most popular game in the history of United States. Pokemon GO has 21 million active users just above 20 million playing Candy Crush.

This phenomenon will only get bigger when its available in more countries .If Pokemon GO is not yet available in your country. Here is the download link for the apk. Download and start playing. Catch 'Em all.

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