Lizard Squad are at it again (PSN/Live Down)

Gamer Bhoy 89

Both Xbox Live and PSN are down. Their twitter is getting immense numbers of followers, did anyone see this?

DarkJager

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Both Xbox Live and PSN are down. Their twitter is getting immense numbers of followers, did anyone see this?

I really do wish these guys would just go and kill themselves.

Gamer Bhoy 89

How the hell are they not getting arrested? Pardon my naivety.

masti123

Take a look at this guys youtube videos https://www.youtube.com/user/NewDramaAlert

He done alot of interviews with Lizard Squad and Finest Squad basically all you need to know in them videos..

Grayditch

They music be really happy and content in their personal lives.

Beer Assistant

Anyone hear anything ?
lot of people having trouble signing into Psn.

F1ngers

From Playstation.

MarkR

Volume I'd imagine.

calex71

No it's those Lizard Squad douche bags again with the DDoS attacks :mad:

Blazer

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Strumms

Haven't been able to connect to the PSN network at all today. Cannot understand why such ****wits are allowed on YouTube or Twitter as they are promoting criminal activity effectively. Great to know that such a bunch of look at me attention seekers can get away with it... Love to see their faces if they do ever have to stand in front of a judge and explain their actions.

Cienciano

:mad: Fúckers! Finally get a chance to see the GTA updates and online isnt available.

RobbingBandit

I can sign in on the PC here for the PSN and make purchases but keep getting an error on the vita saying password doesn't match, fcuking dorks getting a laugh out of doing this, I hate amateurs.

Blazer

RobbingBandit wrote: »

I hate hackers.

they're not hackers...these guys are simply doing a DOS attack on both sites..any gob****e can do it ..simply download the scripts and double click..frakking morons calling themselves hackers ...they haven't a clue

Oat23

If Microsoft went through with their original plan for always online it would have been a disaster with these kids knocking their service offline every few days.

RobbingBandit

Blazer wrote: »

they're not hackers...these guys are simply doing a DOS attack on both sites..any gob****e can do it ..simply download the scripts and double click..frakking morons calling themselves hackers ...they haven't a clue

You are correct sir, post has been fixed. :pac:

calex71

What gets me is these guys have been bragging about this for weeks now and it still happens. Are there any reports as to what kind of payload they are aiming at Sony an MS because I would imagine without getting too technical about it they were level 3/4 attacks and not level 7 Surely the likes of MS and Sony's services would have some of the highest levels of hardening and bandwidth possible so makes me wonder what is being thrown at them and I question the "bought" servers talk being thrown about

Snake Plisken

I mean how many of these feckers are there MS and Sony should join forces and bring these scumbags down!

RonanP77

I was on GTA V online for about 4 hours this afternoon but that was the PS3, does that make any difference?

Twice I couldn't get on but it said it was maintenance issues, it was fine again a minute later on both occasions. There were a few dodgy glitches going on with certain players though.

Retr0gamer

calex71 wrote: »

What gets me is these guys have been bragging about this for weeks now and it still happens. Are there any reports as to what kind of payload they are aiming at Sony an MS because I would imagine without getting too technical about it they were level 3/4 attacks and not level 7 Surely the likes of MS and Sony's services would have some of the highest levels of hardening and bandwidth possible so makes me wonder what is being thrown at them and I question the "bought" servers talk being thrown about

Hard to protect against a DDOS attack and it' quite easy to set up. Just over load the server with requests and it will go down. Hard to prevent it really or do anything about it until it happens so you can see where it's coming from.

Doctor DooM

They've literally ruined christmas for a bunch of kids. What ****s.

mikeym

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30602609

Xbox and PlayStation online services have been suffering technical problems, amid claims a hacking group has disabled their services.

Microsoft and Sony - the companies which make the games consoles - have told customers they are aware of issues affecting their online services.

A hacking group called Lizard Squad is claiming to have caused the problems.

Microsoft and Sony have not commented on the claim, but both said they were fixing the issues.

I was killed all day with 3 lads complaining about Xbox live and another about the PSN. Was convinced it was a router or upc issue. Relieved it's not actually a broadband issue.

What surprise me more is how they can get away with it. I work for one of the biggest IT companies and millions are spent every year protecting customers against these ddos attacks.

Blazer

The thing is Xbox Live is back online a few hours and PSN is still down.
Sony really are amateurs when it comes to online security etc.
They really need to up their game..not much point in splashing out on a PS4 when it's doing sodall and I'm stuck with Fifa 15 on xbox1.

Gamer Bhoy 89

Apparently Lizard Squad "stopped attacks momentarily". I get so thick when I see sh#t like this. I can't imagine the amount of disappointed kids out there that woke up to their respective console, only to have this happen.

Source

:mad:

dreamers75

Some amount of spas retweeting other spas to get 5k something to stop the hacks. Gamers in general are complete ****ing spas, sending death threats to xbox support the ****?

Moved the the kids to PCMR this year kinda worked out well, no issues today.

Xenji

Blazer wrote: »

The thing is Xbox Live is back online a few hours and PSN is still down.
Sony really are amateurs when it comes to online security etc.
They really need to up their game..not much point in splashing out on a PS4 when it's doing sodall and I'm stuck with Fifa 15 on xbox1.

The PSN network has been working fine for me for the last 6-8 hours and for other posters as well, no need for the exaggeration as Sony for a change were really on the ball with this and had its service up again before Live.

Cienciano

Yeah, PSN was back up for me just after midnight.

RedemptionZ

Chances of these people being caught? They sound like the biggest bunch of losers going, nothing creative about it at all.

miralize

The longer a thread goes on, the more likely it turns into a flame war between Xbox & PS gamers.

Not quite as bad as the Lizard Squad but still.. We both got affected....

Oat23

Kim Dotcom gave them 3000 Mega.co.nz premium subscription vouchers to stop attacking.


https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/548275217320001536
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/548305704776241152

J. Marston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Heybq1s79Y

RedemptionZ

Oat23 wrote: »

Kim Dotcom gave them 3000 Mega.co.nz premium subscription vouchers to stop attacking.


https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/548275217320001536[/U RL]
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/548305704776241152[/U RL]

Is that just a PR stunt or?

You don't give in to ransoms with kidnappers, that just encourages more kidnappings...

Oat23

RedemptionZ wrote: »

Is that just a PR stunt or?

You don't give in to ransoms with kidnappers, that just encourages more kidnappings...

PR move of course. He said all the codes will be lifetime codes, but will be terminated if they attack PSN/XBL again. We'll see what they do.

RedemptionZ

Oat23 wrote: »

PR move of course. He said all the codes will be lifetime codes, but will be terminated if they attack PSN/XBL again. We'll see what they do.

Even still if Lizard Squad are out of the picture with this bribe, it just encourages more groups to attack PSN/XBL or other such things and extort rewards. Doesn't look like much thought went into that decision.

Mitch Connor

Xbox is back working for me but psn is still down. Seemingly psn is working for a lot, but still down for some. Don't know if it is an ISP issue n my end or our region is still out.

Blazer

that's ridiculous that PSN is still down..I had tried it about 20 times last night upto 2am and gave up in the end thinking at least it'll be back tomorrow.
Something like this is really turning me off sony if it takes this long to come back each time..it sounds like they've filtering IP's at the moment and only allowing a certain amount through.

john the one

I hate whomever is doing this

Josey Wales

Weird. I knew I would not be able to play Destiny so I booted up Peggle 2. But it just hangs at the start screen now. I wonder if there is some online check preventing it from starting.

Grayditch

Josey Wales wrote: »

Weird. I knew I would not be able to play Destiny so I booted up Peggle 2. But it just hangs at the start screen now. I wonder if there is some online check preventing it from starting.

That happened me too, but it eventually loaded.

Wonda-Boy

Josey Wales wrote: »

Weird. I knew I would not be able to play Destiny so I booted up Peggle 2. But it just hangs at the start screen now. I wonder if there is some online check preventing it from starting.

Cant play Destiny, W2K15, Trials Fusion nothing.....I am blessed Far Cry 4 has an offline mode ffs!!!!

Sony are worse then Lizards amateurs ffs!

Grayditch

I'm surprised Xbox Live is being hit. Normally it's just PSN getting grief, but people are still having trouble with XBL.

kearneybobs

Turned on my new PS4 yesterday. It accepted an update and then rebooted. Haven't been able to sign in since I turned it on. Oh well.

Snake Plisken

Somebody should catch these lizard squad losers stuck them all in orange jumpsuits, ship them over to Syria and hand them over to ISIS!

ando

New PS4 and no joy online, have to do things like hoovering to occupy my time, thats how bad its got :eek::eek:

fox007

Psn still down but yet Xbox live working no problem in my brothers room sort this crap out sony!!

J. Marston

ando wrote: »

New PS4 and no joy online, have to do things like hoovering to occupy my time, thats how bad its got :eek::eek:

Lizard squad have crossed the line now.

Blazer

J. Marston wrote: »

Lizard squad have crossed the line now.

I even had to clean both my game rooms...way out of frakking order.

lertsnim

I see one of the little ****s details have been put on Twitter along with a holiday picture of him and his mother.

Riesen_Meal

I thought Kimdotcom had bribed them with unlimited mega accounts to stop?

Seems they havent stopped unfortunately.... :mad:

I'm only getting a chance to sit down and play games now, wish I could play....

RonanP77

Is there any point in me even trying to set up an account? Is it still down?