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Hacker group causes network outages on Christmas for Playstation, Xbox users in St. Lawrence County

Posted 12/26/14

A hacker group by the name Lizard Squad caused network outages on Christmas Day for Playstation Network (PSN) and Xbox Live gamers all across the world including those in St. Lawrence County. Gamers …

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Hacker group causes network outages on Christmas for Playstation, Xbox users in St. Lawrence County

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A hacker group by the name Lizard Squad caused network outages on Christmas Day for Playstation Network (PSN) and Xbox Live gamers all across the world including those in St. Lawrence County.

Gamers who received a new gaming system for Christmas were met with error codes when attempting to connect to online capabilities on gaming systems.

Lizard Squad had demanded 10,000 retweets on Twitter before allowing online gaming to resume.

That is until Kim Dotcom, an internet entrepreneur and founder of file hosting service Mega, got involved early this morning.

Dotcom offered 3,000 lifetime accounts to Lizard Sqaud for his encrypted upload service, Mega, in exchange for the hackers to stop their cyber attacks, according to his Twitter page.

"I'm online playing #Destiny on XboxOne now. Lizard Squad must have stopped the attack," he posted at 3:45 a.m. Friday.

An account in the hackers name tweeted back at him that they would take him up on his offer and stop the attack.

"Thanks @KimDotcom for the vouchers -- you're the reason we stopped the attacks," they said.

Part of the deal reportedly entails that Lizard Squad not attack PSN or Xbox networks ever again.

Lizard Squad said claimed Twitter that they stopped the attacks and that continuing outages were due to the attacks aftermath.

Gamers are encouraged to continue trying to login as Microsoft and Sony restore their online servers.