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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HeiPosted:

I genuinely hate Lizard Squad! but honestly you should be pointing the finger at Microsoft. If you are going to get bullied, are you just going to stand there and take it? Or will you actually do something about it?

xX-ModZTreaD-Xx2Posted:

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..

EnrichedPosted:

GG lizard squaddddddddddddddddddd

HKMPosted:

gtapro151 who even still plays the 360? its 2015 jeez

People who don't want to shell out $400 for a console that does pretty much the exact same thing as the one they already have.

JetzPosted:

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

AgesPosted:

Well at least Xbox One is still up, who cares for 360!

laskohPosted:

same happened to me :((
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ej70 damn i just got an email someone tried to sign into my account...changed the password but didnt evn kno this happen

ej70Posted:

damn i just got an email someone tried to sign into my account...changed the password but didnt evn kno this happen

J2MZPosted:

DeluxeHazard
Creo Don't they have anything better to do with their lives?


They are low-life scum who have nothing better to do than annoy people. I hope they have fun in prison as they will get caught eventually.


100% agreed i cant wait to see what they look like

DeluxeHazardPosted:

Creo Don't they have anything better to do with their lives?


They are low-life scum who have nothing better to do than annoy people. I hope they have fun in prison as they will get caught eventually.