Xbox Live service down again due to a new DDoS attack by the Lizard Squad

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
December 8, 2014
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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by Pierluigi Paganini on December 8th, 2014

Xbox Live online service was not available for the second time in a few days due to a new DDoS attack by the Lizard Squad hacking team.

Just a week ago the hacking team Lizard Squad has hit the Xbox Live service with a DDoS attack that caused its interruption. The Microsoft’s Xbox Live servers were not reachable for 2 days, having a serious impact in XBox Live users. Yesterday Lizard Squad hit again the Xbox Live service with a DDoS attack and it has announced other similar attack against the PSN services.

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nic
Retired Webrooter
Forum|Forum|10 years ago
December 16, 2014

The threat to ruin Christmas for video game fans was heard by another gang of hackers. Instead of joining forces to revel in the disruption, this group had more noble intentions.

A group known as "The Finest Squad" emerged in December with the intention of bringing "cyber-criminals to justice."
Sure enough, Finest Squad managed to break into the public Twitter accounts and websites of Lizard Squad's members, releasing their names and photographs of them online. For any hacker, that's a nightmare scenario. Being doxxed (having your private information posted online) will generally either lead to an arrest or to sustained harassment from people you have wronged.

One by one, the members of Lizard Squad went silent. It's not clear exactly how Finest Squad managed to uncover their personal information, but it was likely through checking for weak spots in their email, Skype, Twitter, and web hosting accounts.

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