Name: Lizard Squad take responsibility for gaming hacks
Uploaded: 2014-12-26
Duration: 2 min 3 s
Description: Lizard Squad take responsibility for gaming hacks

Sony's got to be sick and tired of hackers by now. A group that calls itself the Lizard squad is claiming responsibility for bringing down Sony's Playstation network and Microsoft's Xbox live over Christmas day. Both Sony and Microsoft let their customers know that their networks were having some issues and that users may have. Trouble logging on. They did not give a reason for the downtime. Christmas is an especially bad time for both networks to go down, as all of the folks opening brand new PlayStation 4 and XBox 1 systems in the morning wouldn't be able to get too far in setting up their online accounts. The notoriously prankster- y Lizard Squad claimed they were responsible for the network's downtime over Twitter. Where some groups hacked to steal data, this group typically hacks to disrupt as many people as possible. But there was another hacking group involved here. The Finest, arguably the good guys in this situation, the Finest. Claimed to have dug up IP addresses being used by the Lizard Squad to perform the denial- of- service attacks. It may not have been the finest that ultimately put an end to the gaming mayhem though. An unexpected negotiator appeared during Christmas evening, a man whose own XBox life experience was interrupted by the DDOS. Attacks Kim. com. Probably best known for his arrest in New Zealand in 2012 and for setting up the countries internet freedom party. Kim said he managed to broker a deal with the Lizard Squad in return for them stopping the attacks, dot. com would give them 3000 vouchers his storage site Mega and 500 gigs of storage. Free for life, for as long as the group stayed away from the gaming networks. Lizard Squad then claimed to have stopped its DDOS attacks. Still, while XBox Live support page says the network is up and running, Playstation still said it was offline as of early Friday morning. So, did Kim DotCom save Christmas for gamers? Maybe. A writer for Gizmodo is skeptical though, saying the whole thing looks. Looks almost a little too planned and perfect. So far neither Sony nor Microsoft have commented on the outages.