Lizard Squad claims responsibility for Black Friday PSN outage

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Just a few hours ago, the PlayStation Network has experienced a mass outage, which was allegedly caused by high traffic from new activations from consoles bought during Black Friday. However, in a recent turn of events, Lizard Squad, a popular hacker group, has claimed responsibility over the said issue.

Just a few hours before the PlayStation team on Twitter acknowledged the problem, Lizard Squad founder "¢hippy," who goes under the username @chippyshell on Twitter, sent a tweet which seemed to be warning about a big event happening soon.

Soon after, "¢hippy" sent out another tweet, finally announcing that the group has successfully taken down the PlayStation Network. The tweet was retweeted by Lizard Squad's Twitter account, under the username @LizardLands.
The Lizard Squad is repeatedly discovered as the culprit behind attacks on the PlayStation Network, as well as the Xbox Live service. It was also responsible for a number of other attacks on other websites, like Google Vietnam and Malaysia Airlines.

As of the moment, according to the PlayStation Network website, the service is now back to normal, and all services are already up and running. However, in the event that any of you are still experiencing hiccups in accessing the service, be sure to let us know in the comments below.

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Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/lizard-squad-claims-reponsibility-for-playstation-network-outage

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JweezyisheaPosted:

Some may wonder... Why the FUCCC havent sony just hired them...

EvoVIIIPosted:

98SupraFanatic Never understood the point. they aren't getting anything out of taking down the servers. just a waste of time


It took them less than a hour if you look at the time stamps of the tweet's. That's honestly not that long.

DNTPosted:

Daniel
Struggler I dont understand the point of hitting Psn or Xbox servers, if the security is that bad then whats the point? They should go after something that takes skill but in this case doesn't look like it haha.


they should use their abilities for good things , not for things like this


Hey just don't want others to have fun basically.
I talked with one member of Lizard Squad and he said
"We do this because we wanna " he was most likely a fake

SkyPosted:

Struggler I dont understand the point of hitting Psn or Xbox servers, if the security is that bad then whats the point? They should go after something that takes skill but in this case doesn't look like it haha.


they should use their abilities for good things , not for things like this

StrugglerPosted:

I dont understand the point of hitting Psn or Xbox servers, if the security is that bad then whats the point? They should go after something that takes skill but in this case doesn't look like it haha.

BondsPosted:

It's ridiculous why do they do this just let people have fun.

98SupraFanaticPosted:

Never understood the point. they aren't getting anything out of taking down the servers. just a waste of time

codsturePosted:

Cant wait until they hit xbox and psn for christmas

RobbedPosted:

PSN server security is absolutley awful.

XboxPosted:

Lizard Squad is back at it.


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