websites said early Friday.
The buzz in the online
gaming scene is that they could be all the way back up soon, after an
iconic gamer claims to have intervened to end a alleged hack that
inundated them.
Gamers eager to battle
online opponents on Xbox and PSN networks tossed their consoles to the
ground on Christmas Day -- one of the busiest gaming days of the year --
while two hacker groups allegedly duked it out on social media over the
gaming systems' connections.
One, Lizard Squad, said
it fought to torpedo the networks. The other, The Finest, said it aimed
to get them afloat again by exposing the aggressors to law enforcement.
The groups posted messages to Twitter. Neither had a verified account, and CNN cannot confirm their identities nor their claims.
Game face
A Twitter account in
Lizard Squad's name claimed responsibility for spoiling the Yuletide fun
-- and the gaming businesses' networks.
It said it was "smacking"
the two systems, apparently one of several attacks in December. The
group took responsibility for keeping each network down earlier this
month on separate occasions.
The group had asked for
retweets in exchange for ending the problem, but then, late Christmas
Eve, things got personal against the other group, The Finest.
"Operations will
continue tomorrow. As a result, the group of kiddies who think they are
'the finest' will be proven incapable," Lizard Squad said in a tweet.
Game off
The alleged hack could have been a distributed denial of service attack.
That's when hackers
flood networks with illegitimate traffic, overwhelming the ability of
the servers. Gamers were able to play games offline, but couldn't
communicate with other players or make use of network functions.
Hundreds of users took to Twitter to report problems with the systems, which lasted much of the day.
"With the #Xbox hacking
shutdown going on I'm watching my 15 year old nephew meltdown: 'I've got
nothing else to do!!!!'" Jim Crilley Jr. wrote on the social messaging
site.
Source:CNN
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