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[Duplolas]

For the past couple of days, the studio Daybreak (formerly called SOE) has been getting hit by Distributed Denial of Service attacks that have rendered games like PlanetSide unplayable. They’re in the clear now, they say, but it was a rough past few hours.

Finland charged Kivimaki, who has connections to a group of internet troublemakers called Lizard Squad, with a two-year suspended sentence that involves no jail time. The charges involve computer fraud and security breaches but are unrelated to the high-profile attacks that brought down both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network last Christmas. Lizard Squad took responsibility for those outages. Smedley also has some history with Lizard Squad—in August of 2014, members of the group called a bomb threat into a plane the CEO was on, leading American Airlines to divert the flight for security reasons. Smedley pins the blame for this incident on Kivimaki.

this outage followed some high-profile comments by Daybreak CEO John Smedley about Julius Kivimaki, a Finnish teenager who was recently convicted on various charges of computer fraud. Smedley threatened to sue Kivimaki and his parents—”I’m coming for you Julius,” he wrote after news of Kivimaki’s conviction came out.

A two year sentence with no jail time? Completely ridiculous.

Sources:

http://kotaku.com/daybreak-games-hit-by-ddos-after-ceo-threatens-lizard-s-1717014668
http://kotaku.com/daybreak-ceo-to-convicted-lizard-squad-hacker-i-m-com-1716614490

 

[NastyBook]

You've been beaten twice, sir.

 

[Duplolas]

You've been beaten twice, sir.

Forum search didn't come up with anything. Sorry about that.

 

[Dash Kappei]

Forum search didn't come up with anything. Sorry about that.

What did you search for if I may ask?

 

[DXLelouch153]

when this kid is sued into oblivion maybe theyll stop being a bunch of assholes
seriously its a wonder they havent been made an example of the Sony or Microsoft yet