Hack Job

August 06, 2007

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If you enjoy things like the Xbox, and you’re gay, you’ve probably been to the GayGamer.net website. It’s the first daily gaming news site for the LGBT community and, according to Boing Boing, it was recently attacked by a Philadelphia area hacker in an act of cyber-vandalism tantamount to hate speech.

The hacker successfully knocked the site offline with a series of attacks on their server and a flood of threatening emails. GayGamer’s owner, Flynn De Marco, said that denial of service attacks began inundating his server last Wednesday, culminating on Friday with a barrage of death threats on the site’s forums and chat rooms.

A Boing Boing commenter referred to the hacking of the site as “internet arson.” In an official statement to its fans, GayGamer.net expressed the following in an official statement:

“I’m sad to say that we have been the target of homophobic hackers. Thankfully, they didn't get to our database so all of our stuff is still in tact. At this point we are jut waiting for our service provider to ensure everything is good before putting the server back online. Hopefully, this will be resolved by the end of this weekend, so please keep checking back. You can't keep a good gay gamer down, so we'll be back before you know it, serving up all the sassy game content you can handle.

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