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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Glock-Posted:

Seems like someone needs to leave their mothers basement and get some girlfriends

TheRealMarkPosted:

I what are they getting out of doing this?

RawrrrrrrPosted:

360 will always be superior to any gaming machine!!! >;o

GrownPosted:

UMP45newbsmg
RivalRogue02
Mancaat
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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


Whoa Whoa Whoa. Back up jack, without the "360" There wouldnt even be an One. So who cares about the xbox One! Xbox 360 is still more popular than the xbox one...


I agree I have both consoles and find myself playing the 360 more, might be that more players actually talk on the 360 lol.

GrownPosted:

Yea I was online when this happened. I actually assumed they were the cause of the problem too.

MPAAPosted:

Standing by for the epic lizard dox reveal from Kim Dotcom...

UMP45newbsmgPosted:

RivalRogue02
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


Whoa Whoa Whoa. Back up jack, without the "360" There wouldnt even be an One. So who cares about the xbox One! Xbox 360 is still more popular than the xbox one...

iceman77Posted:

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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


Either way hack it or overwhelm the system still I wanna see Facebook offline for awhile

LinxPosted:

And that's why it's good to have a gaming pc.

Nintendo64Posted:

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.


Exactly. They are being crowned as hackers by media and so on. They are nothing but a bunch of teenagers running flooders and different proxy networks. Gives real hackers a bad name.