Grimes claims responsibility for 2012 hack of culture blog Hipster Runoff
there was evidence of “foul play” on the server, including a disk crash and sabotaged backups. Grimes said she and her fellow, still-anonymous perpetrator “basically blackmail[ed]” Carles into removing the story before they would let him restore Hipster Runoff.explains, DDoS attacks have long been illegal in both the US and Grimes' home country of Canada — both nations can sentence culprits to as many as 10 years in prison. Blackmail, of course, has been illegal for longer.
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