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Another recap of yesterday's events from Money-not_you_again: http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2egpbd/psn_issues_megathread_20140824/ http://www.reddit.com/
by 882542F3884314B 12y ago
Another recap of yesterday's events from Money-not_you_again:
http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2egpbd/psn_issues_megathread_20140824/ http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2egpbd/psn_issues_megat...
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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 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 https://twitter.com/j_smedley) Edit: Added Smed's Twitter.
Well Anonymous (https://twitter.com/W0rIdPeace 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 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-diego-diverted-to-phoenix/ 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 https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS)
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- bentcorner 12y agoI'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?
- tinco 12y agoUsually 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.
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- tinco 12y agoWhy would you think a hacker group is anything but a group of ignorant teenagers, they always are. It's been like that since the early 80s. They're all alike. But this behaviour is not specifically teenager behaviour, it's human-with-an-agenda behaviour. The idea that the average human makes better decisions than the average ignorant teenage hacker is naieve I'd say :)
- thezilch 12y ago> 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.
- yincrash 12y agoStill a DDoS, just one of the auth servers and not the game/chat servers.