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Christmas day was a frustrating one for many, as despite the new games they'd opened from Father Christmas, they were unable to play them online as both Xbox Live and the PlayStation network were down. Laying claim to the DDOS attack that caused it was a hacking group called Lizard Squad, but the individuals remained nameless. Now though, British police are claiming to have arrested one of the alleged hackers.
22 year old Vinnie Omari, was arrested on Monday this week as part of an investigation into PayPal hacks over the past couple of years. While not necessarily connected to the Lizard Squad attacks, DailyDot has it that Omari's computers were seized, as well as other electronics, in an effort to see whether he had any involvement in the PSN and Xbox Live downing. Omari is said to now be out on bail, awaiting trial.
No word on whether King Koopa is involved
The other supposed member of the group, “Ryan,” is identified by KrebsOnSecurirty, as Julius Kivimäki, who is claimed by the Lizard Squad itself, as currently being in a Finnish jail. It also said however that he had refused extradition and was continuing to operate from within his cell.
Lizard Squad has in recent days been shopping around the hacking tools it used to take down both the big gaming networks and has also been trying to sell on the 3,000 MEGA vouchers that Kim Dotcom handed over in ransom to stop the attack on Xbox Live – since he wanted to play on Christmas.
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KitGuru Says: If these guys are members of Lizard Squad, it suggests that the group's average age is pretty young. Perhaps that's the reason for the seemingly nonsensical Xbox and PSN takedown?
What did I say when the dumbasses first came into the news? pathetic basement dweller kids.
tl;dr: Not every hacker is the same so people should stop tarring them with the same brush because Lizard Squad are retarded and thought it would be a good idea.
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Attacking Xbox and PS isn’t really our problem on the grounds most of us are PC gamers but I think the main reason we’re all so pissed off about it is their compete disregard for how hacker collectives operate and their views. They pissed off Anonymous attacking Tor, how could they be so fucking stupid?! They are giving groups like Anonymous who fight for free speech bad names as hackers because they thought it would be a good idea to take down some shitty console gaming network. Personally I don’t care for them as it doesn’t affect me but I think someone needs to prove not every collective is the same. They don’t all DDOS networks for the shits and giggles like Lizard Squad they fight to keep people in country’s ruled by dictators alive by giving them ways to get their story out.