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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Persil2in1Posted:

They remind me of Lulzsec, just doing it for the sake of it :/

FreshwafflePosted:

Pro xbox dont usually get things like this happening to them , playstation should get some tips off them!


Both consoles got rekt last holiday season, and probably going to happen again.

TaylorPosted:

I feel like Lizard Squad has something against Sony.

DanielPosted:

I dont know what kick they get out of hitting PSN and XBOX offline, Hate them me.

AustinPosted:

around this time last year is when they came out isn't it?

ProPosted:

xbox dont usually get things like this happening to them , playstation should get some tips off them!

LiaPosted:

Well i guess they are back. Christmas is again going to be a bad time for people wanting play new games or consoles.

HippieSabotagePosted:

PSN will always be the one to go down first

CarlPosted:

Thats awesome. Now if they channeled this towards something i want or "good" then that would be awesome.

TohkaPosted:

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 do this to advertise their stresser, which is a DDoS tool they sell. They have flat out said that it's the only reason they do this. And TTG isn't helping when they give the morons free publicity.

Half the attacks they've taken responsibility for aren't even theirs, people just assume it's them and they're like "Oh look, free publicity and money, thanks!".


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