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7. What happened to Lizard Squad who claimed DDOS against PSN and a bomb threat against a Sony CEO ?

August 25, 2014


Hackers take down PSN with DDOS, and Sony president’s plane with a bomb threat

In a rather bizarre twist of events, a group by the name of Lizard Squad has taken hacking to the next level: Not only did the hackers take down the PlayStation Network with a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, but they also took down Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley’s airplane with a bomb threat. Sony has since restored service to PSN, and says there’s no evidence of any personal information being stolen. Smedley’s San Diego-bound American Airlines flight was quickly landed in Phoenix, but the only harm done was a lot of annoyed and delayed passengers. Perpetrating a DDOS attack is one thing, but bomb threats are an entirely different can of worms. Heads will undoubtedly roll in the next few days as federal investigators identify the members of Lizard Squad.

The DDOS began yesterday, August 24, with the PlayStation Network in North America being unreachable for PS3 and PS4 $399.99 at Dell owners. Around the same time, Lizard Squad claimed (on Twitter) that it also DDOSed the servers of Xbox Live, Blizzard, League of Legends, and Path of Exile. In some cases services were unavailable or flaky, but the PSN outage seems to have been the most serious. Sony acknowledged the outage on its blog, and then updated the post to say that it was caused by a DDOS.

At some point, someone at Lizard Squad also thought it was a good idea to tweet a bomb threat to American Airlines, which was carrying SOE president John Smedley to San Diego.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188583-hackers-take-down-psn-with-ddos-and-sony-presidents-plane-with-a-bomb-threat