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:

Xbox (360) Live #offline

— Lizard Squad (@LizardPhoenix) February 16, 2015

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.

Posted: Feb 16, 2015 12:15 pm
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Source: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lizard-squad-remerges-knock-xbox-live-offline-again-1488094