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British law-enforcement officials have arrested six male teenagers suspected of being members of the Lizard Squad hacking crew that disabled Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live last year.

The U.K.’s National Crime Agency, the equivalent to the U.S.’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the suspects used a tool to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to cripple online servers of “gaming companies” as well as e-retailers, a national British newspaper and a school. The NCA did not identify the targeted companies but reports said the arrests are related to several attacks on the PlayStation and Xbox networks last year. Amazon also was among the sites attacked by the group, Bloomberg reported.

The NCA’s Operation Vivarium tracked down individuals who bought Lizard Stresser, software for launching DDoS attacks that flood servers with bogus data, using payment services such as Bitcoin to remain anonymous. The suspects detained for questioning this week are all between the ages of 15 and 18.

EDIT: Double thread, my bad. Please lock.

SOURCE: http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/u-k-arrest-teens-sony-microsoft-xbox-hack-attacks-1201580562/

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Same thread title and source too!

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1103343

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Interesting does Neogaf not filter identical thread titles

 

[Pathfinder]

Same thread title and source too!

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1103343

Whoops. Looks like we both started the same thread around the same time.

Mod's, please lock.