A deadly hacker named 'ThreatKing', took down the official website of New York Magazine yesterday shortly after the publication unveiled the controversial Bill Cosby cover.
Few hours after New York Magazine unveiled its controversial Bill Cosby
cover story entitled
“Cosby: The Women,” from a painstaking result of six months of interviews and careful planning, their official website was abruptly taken offline by an anonymous hacker.
Soon afterwards, critics began pointing some accusing fingers on Cosby, alleging his conivance with the hacker who took down the site. However, The hacker, known only as ThreatKing, said he did not care about Bill Cosby but hates the 'many stupid people' of New York.
In an interview with an online media, ThreatKing said he 'overwhelmed the site with a distributed denial of service attack' which overloaded its servers with traffic.
On his hatred of NYC, ThreatKing maintained that he found so many things wrong in New York, hence, his choice of the city for attacks. He also claimed that his hatred of New York was based on some jeers and intimidations he received from the people when he visited New York city.
"I’ve seen many pranks gone wrong at New York. That got me pissed. That’s why I chose New York. I went to new York 2 months ago. It was really bad. Someone pranked me. Everyone started laughing and shit. The first 10 hours being there. Some African-American tried to prank me with a fake hand gun."
He further maintained that he plans to continue instigating similar attacks on other New York media outlets. "I’ll try my best to keep [New York] offline for 14 hours. We would control the Internet if we had enough money. Because each server costs money."