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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FieldingPosted:

HeyItsNebula All the attention lizard squad gets is killing me.They are in no way hackers so it's annoying that everyone gives them publicity.They are nothing more than nerds that can ddos.


hallelujah, mewling quims

AllSkinsNoSkillPosted:

All the attention lizard squad gets is killing me.They are in no way hackers so it's annoying that everyone gives them publicity.They are nothing more than nerds that can ddos.

RivalRogue02Posted:

xX-ModZTreaD-Xx2 So is this the reason why Ive banned from Xbox Live until day 28? Usually when you get suspended, there is information about your suspendation. Well mine dont have that information. Curse you Microsoft, Im suspended for nothing..


considering that your name has "mod" in it im sure it wasnt for nothing lol.

RivalRogue02Posted:

Mancaat
-Ribery-
Ages Well at least Xbox One is still up, who cares for 360!


Even though I have xbox one theres so many people that play 360 meaning a lot of people care haha


im pretty sure more people play 360.


i still care about my 360 considering how much money i've put in it over the past couple of years even though i rarely play it anymore lmao

FieldingPosted:

iceman77 Props to these guys who have the knowledge to do that shit but come on if your going to hack something hack something more annoying and worth shutting down like Facebook think of all those pathetic fb addicts going nuts


They're not hacking, they are DDoS'ing

ttggivengiftPosted:

ls please take your hands from the keyboard push yourself away from the computer open your blinds hell maybe open your windows get some fresh air, go take a shower put some clothes on open your front door and take that first step to not being a waste of a human body i know you can do it, you might even wind up knowing what a putty feels like you ducking nerds.

iceman77Posted:

Props to these guys who have the knowledge to do that shit but come on if your going to hack something hack something more annoying and worth shutting down like Facebook think of all those pathetic fb addicts going nuts

FieldingPosted:

Naught but mewling little mothers boys is how I would define "Lizard Squad". Pound shop LulzSec at best.

SmugPosted:

**** nerds, they do some stupid shit for attention.

CartierPosted:

These people have nothing better to do honestly. All they have is the computer and they most likely suck at everything else so they waste their time on this.


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