Lizard Squad returns to knock Xbox Live offline again

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The infamous hacking/trolling group known as Lizard Squad has claimed it has once again attacked the Xbox Live network, knocking it offline for gamers across the globe.

Reports of the outage were first logged by users at around 5am GMT on Monday, 16 February with the Xbox Live Status dashboard still showing that there is limited access to the network over three hours later.

Lizard Squad, which rose to prominence at the end of 2014 for its attacks on the PlayStation Network as well as Microsoft's online gaming system, has claimed responsibility. Having had its previous account suspended by Twitter, the group has been using the @LizardPhoenix account since 31 January and on Monday morning tweeted:

The group also made reference to the fact that the last time it attacked the Xbox Live network it only stopped when paid off by Kim Dotcom with vouchers for his online cloud storage service Mega, telling him now "to take his vouchers and shove them up his fat ass."

Looking at reports of the Xbox outage on Down Detector, the majority of reports came from the US, though considering the timing of the attack this is unsurprising.

Lizard Squad said that the attack was carried out in cooperation with a number of hackers from another group called LNO (Like None Other)

Lizard Squad have used distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Xbox Live and PSN previously as a way to promote its own DDoS-for-hire service known as LizardStresser.

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Source: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lizard-squad-remerges-knock-xbox-live-offline-again-1488094

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Mario350Posted:

xbl has bin messed up for a while they had a service alert alot recently i highly doubt its these new kids who are harmless

RinPosted:

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Rin No one should be mad anyway. It's one hour of free time, quit complaining.
I do feel bad for Kim dotcom though. He should have never given away those vouchers in the first place. He just funded the group for more attacks lol.


He can just have the vouchers revoked so it doesn't matter.

Lizard Squad already sold the vouchers if I'm not wrong.

GaryPosted:

Rin No one should be mad anyway. It's one hour of free time, quit complaining.
I do feel bad for Kim dotcom though. He should have never given away those vouchers in the first place. He just funded the group for more attacks lol.


He can just have the vouchers revoked so it doesn't matter.

TTGxUehleinbxPosted:

Lol... They're not hackers. Simply put, script kiddies is the appropriate term. Any 13 year old with a boner for men can go to HF and buy a booter for 5$. This isn't what lizard squad, a.k.a gay boy squad did, but they are simply using (I'm assuming) a bunch of RATs to launch the attack. Talk about a bunch of untalented hicks doing whatever they can to make a claim at fame.

carlos-Posted:

-Ribery- It's insane how these kids can do this against companies like Sony and microsoft


Dude nothings impossible in this world. If somebody ever says somethings impossible than thats a blatant lie.

JetzPosted:

It's insane how these kids can do this against companies like Sony and microsoft

RinPosted:

No one should be mad anyway. It's one hour of free time, quit complaining.
I do feel bad for Kim dotcom though. He should have never given away those vouchers in the first place. He just funded the group for more attacks lol.

tO0tPosted:

These kids have too much time on their hands.

SigeleiPosted:

Mickers Is it honestly that hard to contain these people? I believe it is only Xbox 360 though.


My point exactly, a multi billion dollar company vs a couple of kids that have nothing better else to do lol

NeeksRoyalPosted:

Are you serious they will see psn again too.


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