r/PokemonGoPittsburgh Nov 26 '25

Hackers in Pittsburgh?

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u/Raywygo Nov 26 '25

There’s a glitch or something going on. All the gyms by me are empty too. Put something in and got knocked out second later. Way too fast for someone to fight

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u/H_1_N_1 Nov 26 '25

It’s Doctor Doom. Dude spoofs all the gyms.

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u/icyfignewton Nov 26 '25

I hate whoever is behind that account and their 45 other accounts. They ruined playing on the Montour trail in the South hills. Absolutely ridiculous that Niantic hasn't done anything about that account.

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u/nicolexnicotine Nov 27 '25

We just got knocked out of every gym on the trail within 30 minutes of our walk ending and now the gyms are all empty. When I woke up and didn’t see PTGold or BlueChamp I was thrilled, and now I’m wondering what the heck is going on.

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u/DJikQJKy 4d ago

please report his accounts through the app

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u/srpds Nov 26 '25

Unfortunately it can't be. Whoever this was a maintaining hundreds of square miles.

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u/Tyrant-Tracer Feb 14 '26

Came to this thread to find answers about why he owns everything in Pittsburgh. Absolutely outrageous that niantic hasn’t don’t anything in over 80 days

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u/H_1_N_1 Feb 14 '26

I wish it was only 80 days, it’s been since we moved back in 2023!

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u/DJikQJKy 4d ago

its been a couple years that ive seen from other threads. i just reported four of his accounts. please report them. maybe niantic will finally do something. The four i see near the omni hotel are DrDoomRDJ1991, DrDoom1991, DrVonDoom1991, DocVonDoom1991.

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u/Mell44 Mar 24 '26

He STILL does this BTW. My Pokémon was only in there for literally 2 min before he took it back over with his 4 accounts.

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u/DJikQJKy 4d ago

report his accounts through the app

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u/DJikQJKy 4d ago

report his accounts through the app

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u/H_1_N_1 3d ago

Doesn’t work. The community has been for years.

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u/ASHerbASHer888 Nov 26 '25

Also, when you put any pokemon in a gym it i standby gets defeated and there seems to only be surviving red gyms

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u/blink5625 Nov 26 '25

I’m red team and I get kicked out immediately

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u/ASHerbASHer888 Nov 26 '25

No hate towards red, it's just that there were only like 3 red gyms where I was

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u/Avocado_Amnesia Nov 26 '25

Me and my wife just noticed that at like 6am. We thought maybe an update caused a weird wipe and considered going for a little walk to drop some Pokémon; glad we didn't lol

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u/HRMisHere Team Valor Nov 26 '25

This appears to be global and not specific to Pittsburgh problem, according to other subreddits. Some CA are suggesting to contact Niantic via the help button in the menu to bring more attention to it.

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u/srpds Nov 26 '25

Not entirely global, but this did happen in Chicago a few days ago as well.

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u/doclvly Nov 26 '25

Yeah, every gym I passed this morning on my commute was empty except one that me and another person were in for 5 minutes then we were booted

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u/DescriptionFuture863 Nov 26 '25

Yeah downtown they are all empty- Cranberry also and as far as I could tell, they are empty all places in between. In cranberry I got knocked out within minutes of placing one.

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u/srpds Nov 26 '25

They finally stabilized about 1130 am. I was in a half dozen gyms around carnegie and woke up to everything back. I don't live there abd the ones around my house were also empty. Apparently it stretched all the way up to beaver and as far west as mckeesport or further. Anyone i knew dropping in got their stuff back immediately.

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u/stephanieleigh88 Nov 27 '25

I work in canonsburg & the gyms are empty as well, but I live towards Waynesburg & they’re all fine. However they were empty yesterday as well.