Reddit summarized the report by saying that he had planned to use distributed denial of service attacks to flood traffic on various high-profile gaming websites associated with PhantomL0rd, including League of Legends and Blizzard Entertainment's. he revealed to have been targeting a popular livestreamer who goes by the name of PhantomL0rd on the streaming website Twitch. To bring down the game servers, he used an indirect attack on Riot Games' internet service provider Internap. Hours afterwards, many of the League of Legends game server regions in North America, Europe, and Oceania, as well as the website and Internet forums were taken down. his first attack however, was on a game called Quake Live. Initially, Derp sent a few tweets using the Twitter account “DerpTrolling” to indicate that he were going to bring down the popular gaming website League of Legends. Public reaction to his presence has been generally negative, largely owing to the unclear nature of his motives. In December 2013 he managed to bring down large gaming sites such as League of Legends in an attempt to troll popular livestreamer PhantomL0rd.
He largely used Twitter to coordinate distributed denial of service attacks on various high traffic websites.
Austin Thompson, known as DerpTrolling, is a hacker that was active from 2011 to 2014.
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