Pokemon Go down: Hacking group claims responsibility for bringing down game's servers 'with DDOS attack'

A hacking group has claimed responsbility for taking down the Pokémon Go servers using a DDOS attack.

A cyber collective known as PoodleCorp announced on Twitter it was behind the action, but this claim is yet to be verified.

The account also retweeted a post by a user claiming to be the leader of PoodleCorp.  

"Just was a lil test, we will do something on a larger scale soon," said the post by user XO.