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Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked

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@Famedgod is the psn botnet ddoser

@Lizardsquad tried to take credit for attacks.

@Famedgod tried to dox them

@Lizardsquad calls in bomb threat (in attempt to validity their claim)

Anonymous doxxes @lizardsquad

Twitter user doxxes @famedgod

Yup. Also Lizardsquad is currently claiming its a member of ISIS. And has taken down a few papal web pages since the attack posting with Islamic hash tags. But they only just started (this weekend) using Islamic hash tags, so who knows. The media really seems to be playing this up, likely because ISIS is in the news.

Famedgod and Lizardsquad are on twitter so you can go read their drama unfold.

What about :

> The incidents follow reports of earlier DDoS attacks on other multiplayer titles on Friday, including Eve Online, League of Legends, RuneScape and Guild Wars 2.

is this an unfortunate coincidence, or it is linked to PSN attacks?

As far as I can tell it was coincidence. A lot of these games get small scale attacks at a fairly constant rate because its pretty easy to get feedback.

"Oh look I clicked a button and we got booted from the game #1336"

Famedgod also got doxxed? Huh, that didn't take too long, did it?

He seems to say that the doxx published is a 2011 one.

In case anyone else is as un-down-with-the-kidz as I am, as far as I can gather, 'to dox' is a verb meaning to reveal personal information.

Apparently it got added to the Oxford English Dictionary[1], so now I guess it's fair use for everyone.

[1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...

'doxing' is a term that has probably been around for at least 4-5 years. But yea. The point is that you are releasing 'documents' ('dox' being a slur on 'docs') about someone that removes that anonymity.

It's been in mainstream news for about that long, perhaps. The term itself is considerably older.

I did say "at least." :P

Fair enough, but it goes back to at least the 90s from what I can remember. Most likely, it's even older.

dox?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8221896

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doxx

Another recap of yesterday's events from Money-not_you_again: http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2egpbd/psn_issues_megat...

" A PROPER RECAP OF EVENTS SO FAR (sorry for the caps, but just so people see and we don't have a thousand different news reports of random shit):

So a guy by the name of FamedGod (https://twitter.com/FamedGod) DDOS's PSN in the name of proving that Sony has shite security still. Then a group of fools named the Lizard Squad (Edit: Twitter link removed as the account is carrying doxxed info) decide to take credit and take it a step further by threatening that there's a bomb on the American Airlines flight of SOE CEO John Smedley. As a result his flight is rerouted and now sits on the tarmac being inspected (https://twitter.com/j_smedley) Edit: Added Smed's Twitter.

Well Anonymous (https://twitter.com/W0rIdPeace) comes to the aid of PSN and AA, telling people that they're working to get PSN up and assuring AA that there is no bomb on the plane. In the mean time FamedGod finds out that LizardSquad has taken credit for his attack and proceeds to release the IPs of all of Lizard Squads members. Anon then tracks the IP of the Twitter account to Washington, DC and now everyone's just waiting to see what the hell is going to happen. Edit: The update so far is that LS is still tweeting out ISIS flags and Jihad hashtags while the FBI is, ostensibly, monitoring the plane inspection in Phoenix.

I should add that Federal Authorities are now involved because of the bomb threat and the ISIS flag being flown. So there's a group of morons out there who are probably going to be enjoying a steaming hot cup of FBI pretty soon.

UPDATE (before I head off to work): LS's Twitter is replying to people, still taunting Smeds and the FBI, acting as though they're ISIS soldiers doing all this from Iraq. No updates from Smed, Anon or FG. But we do know that the FBI is involved and at some point a lot of people are going to be tracking down LS in connection with what's happened with the AA flight. I'll try and update from work if I can, but I'm sure there's going to be a lot more coming.

Sidenote: So despite media reports to the contrary, Blizzard and Riot appear unaffected.

UPDATE2: Smeds plane was cleared and the planes back on its way after a 3hr bomb check.

UPDATE3: (Thanks to u/PickleSlice) Looks like LS has doxxed FameGod- so the person responsible for today PSN outtage has been revealed, though he seems unconcerned. Edit: Removed link to Doxx, because commonsense and site rules. My bad on that- still posting from work and slipped.

UPDATE4: FameGod is now stating that he didn't do it- which may or may not be true, in the face of Federal Authorities being involved and his personal information being released. (Thanks to u/Kill_Me_For_Money) https://twitter.com/FamedGod/status/503697915999961088

Sidenote: (Thanks to u/Ganoobed) Mainstream media are now picking up on the story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-airlines-flight-to-san-...

UPDATE5: (Shoutout to u/PickleSlice again) So now Unknownsec, a different group, have doxxed Lizard Squad. Mainstream media are paying more attention to the bomb threat (rightfully so, as it's the most severe aspect of todays events) and this all adds up to a lot of Federal Investigators coming down on a lot of "hackers" at the end of this. Some very severe consequences for all involved at Kotaku confirmed earlier in the day by way of SOE that the FBI was involved with all of Sony's problems too.

Sidenote: Apparently looks like Battle.Net is now being hit by Lizard Squad. (https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS) "

I'm curious - how does someone track the IP of a twitter user? Unless they have someone "on the inside", I thought it was not possible to see where a user was interacting with twitter from?

Besides, wouldn't you want to interact with the world through TOR or something like that if you were up to stuff like this?

Usually you trap them into clicking a link you control. Alternatively you hijack their account somehow and find out where they logged in from.

That the address in Washington is a TOR node or any other kind of proxy is of course a very real possibility.

  > Sidenote: So despite media reports to the contrary, Blizzard and Riot appear unaffected.

Battle.net was hit all weekend; the effects were obvious for anyone trying to authenticate. It was not a hardcore DDoS; it just took a long line to get auth'd, at which point other Blizzard services seemed mostly OK -- some games were still affected, regardless of the auth services.

It seemed to get better by Sunday, where I can only recall one or two times having timeouts.

Still a DDoS, just one of the auth servers and not the game/chat servers.

I find it curious that in one tweet, they state something along the lines of "you cannot find me, i am god". Attributing yourself to be or have any qualities of a god is a big no-no in Islam. Some sects will go as far as to proclaiming new prophets and whatnot, but calling yourself god is out of the question. These kids are definitely not ISIS, Muslim nor l33t.

Minister Wallace Fard would like a word.

Why? Nation of Islam may have the word "Islam" in it, but they're definitely not Muslim.

Lizardsquad sounds like somebody with a personality disorder craving attention who might have just bit off more than they can chew.

From /u/legauge on reddit - http://imgur.com/a/eVR6h . The intensity of attack has gone down a bit but it was pretty cool to see this in realtime from - http://map.ipviking.com/

Wow, that ipviking site is somewhat entrancing to watch.

Looks like LizardSquad also called in a bomb threat on a flight carrying Sony's Online exec http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/08/25/0530248/lizard-squad-...

Downtime graph: http://downdetector.com/status/playstation-network.

For Xbox Live: http://downdetector.com/status/xbox-live.

This also seems to be the thing affecting Steam's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive servers.

Sorry, but how is this related to the PSN?

Both are being DDoSed by the same people.

Yep most of Steam servers (US based ones) are affected as well. Dota2, CS:GO etc.

did sony crypt their user datas this time ?

It was a DDoS.

FamedGod is claiming it is a little bit more than that, but I doubt he had access to any data https://twitter.com/FamedGod/status/503656489224257537

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