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NJPW World Outage Due to External Hack

April 8, 2015 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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– New Japan World’s crash during the company’s annual Invasion Attack was, in an oddly appropriate circumstance, the result of hacking. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that the crash was caused by an outside hacker and that officials were unable to fix the problem until toward the end of the show.

The site notes that the issue was resolved by the end and that some were able to watch the show live. For those who weren’t, the replay quickly went up on the service for replay on-demand.