Grub Street Goes Down as Part of NYMag DDOS Hack

Probably not because he was never invited to take part in the Grub Street Diet, a hacker named ThreatKing shut down New York magazine’s websites including Grub Street, Vulture, and The Cut early this morning, just as the site published a widely-acclaimed profile of 35 of Bill Cosby‘s rape accusers.

According to The Daily Dot, the hacker’s motivation has nothing to do with the Bill Cosby story:

“Many stupid people at [sic] New York,” ThreatKing told The Daily Dot over a Skype chat. “I have not even seen the cover, LOL,” he said.

ThreatKing first claimed responsibility for the attack under the Twitter handle @Vikingdom2016. The hacking group Vikingdom garnered some attention earlier this year by claiming attacks on some random goverment websites, including maine.gov for a few hours.

He tells the site that attacks on New York-based attacks will continue, although he only plans to keep NYMag down for 14 hours.

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