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[flkraven]

British law-enforcement officials have arrested six male teenagers suspected of being members of the Lizard Squad hacking crew that disabled Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live last year.

The U.K.’s National Crime Agency, the equivalent to the U.S.’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the suspects used a tool to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to cripple online servers of “gaming companies” as well as e-retailers, a national British newspaper and a school. The NCA did not identify the targeted companies but reports said the arrests are related to several attacks on the PlayStation and Xbox networks last year. Amazon also was among the sites attacked by the group, Bloomberg reported.

Source: Variety

Sweet sweet justice. I love when these guys that think they are invincible get caught.

More details of operation:
http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov....s-users-of-lizard-squad-s-website-attack-tool

The warrants executed this week included:
A 17 year-old male from Manchester had computer equipment seized and was interviewed under caution by the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) on 27 August.
A 18 year-old-male from Huddersfield arrested and bailed on 27 August by Yorkshire and Humberside police.
A 18 year-old-male from Milton Keynes interviewed under caution by the South East ROCU on 26 August.
A 18 year-old male from Manchester arrested and bailed by North West ROCU and Greater Manchester Police on 26 August.
A 16 year-old male from Northampton arrested and bailed by East Midlands ROCU on 26 August.
A 15 year-old male from Stockport arrested by the North West ROCU and Greater Manchester Police on 24 August.

Two other suspected users of Lizard Stresser were arrested earlier this year:
A 17 year-old male from Cardiff arrested and bailed by South Wales ROCU and NCCU on 16 April.
A 17 year-old male from Northolt arrested and bailed by the Metropolitan Police on 03 March.

Officers are also visiting approximately 50 addresses linked to individuals registered on the Lizard Stresser website, but who are not currently believed to have carried out attacks.

A third of the individuals identified are under the age of 20, and the activity forms part of the NCA’s wider work to address younger people at risk of entering into serious forms of cyber crime.

 

[Transistor]

Good. Fuck those kids.

 

[The_Almighty_Swan]

If the punishment for doing stuff like this isn't harsh stuff like this will continue to happen. Glad they got caught though...

 

[liquidtmd]

They will cry like little girls. Jesus, the oldest are 18?

 

[ConceptX]

More details of operation:
http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov....s-users-of-lizard-squad-s-website-attack-tool

They went for people buying the tool from Lizard Squad, not Lizard Squad members themselves it seems.

 

[flkraven]

Just read this in the comments:

Sony I am waiting for my money your company and people connected to it been illegally stalking me for years and using me to make productions with no contract, consent or agreement

A written apology and financial recompense would be acceptable.

Completely unrelated but lol, wtf?

 

[Arttemis]

I'm really curious to know how many of them were on some kind of parole or internet restriction from previous crimes. The last two were, and it did absolutely nothing to prevent them from continuing their illegal activities and putting other people's lives in danger.

 

[Kenzodielocke]

They will cry like little girls

 

[flkraven]

More details of operation:
http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov....s-users-of-lizard-squad-s-website-attack-tool

They went for people buying the tool from Lizard Squad, not Lizard Squad members themselves.

added to OP. thanks

 

[entremet]

In before people asking them to be locked up for life for messing with their gaming time lol.

 

[Newtype-001]

Nice.

 

[SeanTSC]

In before people asking them to be locked up for life for messing with their gaming time lol.

Not in before people thinking that these guys, who also all participated in SWATing and possibly Bomb Threats against Planes, shouldn't be locked up in prison.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

In before people asking them to be locked up for life for messing with their gaming time lol.

Let's lock 'em up for life!

Spoiler

Seriously though. These threads are difficult because the American sense of justice is synonymous with assigning punishment. I'll admit that even though I hate the American prison system and fully and wholly acknowledge that rehabilitation is immeasurably better for society, my desire to see "justice served" is too intense to ignore. And I've never even been personally affected by the actions of these kids.

Which isn't to say I want them to see life in prison. But I crave "justice."

Makes me wonder and worry about myself, and the social constructs I try to be conscious of.

 

[eso76]

I read that as:
Police arrests teens linked to Sony.
Microsoft cyber attacks.

As in, unleashes cyber attack. For some reason.

 

[Straight Edge]

Let's lock 'em up for life!

No, not for life but a few years/fine/ban from internet use would be good.

 

[MouldyK]

In before people asking them to be locked up for life for messing with their gaming time lol.

It's time like this that I wish the Death Penalty was still active in this country.

Spoiler

Clearly I jest

 

[sora87]

Nothing will end up happening to them though.

 

[Kei-]

In before people asking them to be locked up for life for messing with their gaming time lol.

Or, maybe it's for costing Sony and Microsoft potentially millions. No one's asking for life, just not a slap on the wrist.

 

[MrBenchmark]

Let's lock 'em up for life!

Six Months in the "pound you in the ass" section of there local institution will suffice

 

[Finale Fireworker]

It's time like this that I wish the Death Penalty was still active in this country.

I think we should eat them.

 

[Trevelyon]

Not in before people thinking that these guys, who also all participated in SWATing and possibly Bomb Threats against Planes, shouldn't be locked up in prison.

B-bu-but they're cherub cheeked baby boys who were just a little naughty once. So what if they messed with PSN, it would've been down anyways.

 

[7DollarHagane]

Enjoy a ruined life of poor job prospects and shame of explaining your criminal record, dipshits.

 

[friskykillface]

The 15,16,17 year olds won't get tried as an adult so their sentences might be short or just a warning :/ smh they should be tried as adults

 

[Wagram]

Good. Fuck those kids.

Nothing else to see here. Don't allow them even more attention they don't need.

 

[flkraven]

I probably should have put Lizard Squad somewhere in the title.

 

[Nzyme32]

It's time like this that I wish the Death Penalty was still active in this country.

Glad your in the minority in this country

 

[MouldyK]

I think we should eat them.

On July 23, 1988, Rick Gibson ate the flesh of another person in public. Because England does not have a specific law against cannibalism, he legally ate a canapé of donated human tonsils in Walthamstow High Street, London.[153][154] A year later, on April 15, 1989, he publicly ate a slice of human testicle in Lewisham High Street, London.[155][156] When he tried to eat another slice of human testicle at the Pitt International Galleries in Vancouver on July 14, 1989, the Vancouver police confiscated the testicle hors d'œuvre.[157] However, the charge of publicly exhibiting a disgusting object was dropped and he finally ate the piece of human testicle on the steps of the Vancouver court house on September 22, 1989.[158]

Well, it seems legal!

Glad your in the minority in this country

I should have made it clear that I was being sarcastic.

 

[liquidtmd]

Well, it seems legal!.

 

[RichiRamjag]

In before people asking them to be locked up for life for messing with their gaming time lol.

Yeah, never mind their more serious crimes eh? But no reason to mention those as it doesn't make for a "witty" comment.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

I think we should eat them.

Well, it seems legit!

Justice is served.

 

[Bold One]

why is it always UK teens doing this shit

are our teenagers that bored?

 

[MouldyK]

why is it always UK teens doing this shit

are our teenagers that bored?

Exactly! I saw an Ice Cream Store turned into a Youth Centre in South East London!

We sacrificed Ice-Cream to appease them and they still act up!

 

[flkraven]

Yeah, never mind their more serious crimes eh? But no reason to mention those as it doesn't make for a "witty" comment.

Heck, other crimes don't even need to be mentioned. When a group of kids repeatedly takes down the online infrastructure of some of the biggest corporation on earth, they should absolutely be punished. It doesn't make it any less serious because it has to do with video games.

 

[Taker34]

They should be sentenced to play Knack for one year on hard difficulty. Scumbags. I know this is quite extreme but so am I.

 

[deadman69]

why is it always UK teens doing this shit

are our teenagers that bored?

kids theses days.
back in my day we used to do drugs and hang around on street corners.

 

[NumberTwo]

Good. Fuck those kids.

This is terrible advice. DO NOT DO THIS.

I'm glad these degenerates were caught though.

 

[Shining Sunshine]

They were all from UK?

 

[liquidtmd]

They should be sentenced to play Knack for one year on hard difficulty. Scumbags. I know this is quite extreme but so am I.

So THATS why there's so many nutters in the Plus thread continually demanding Knack is the next free game.

They're actually looking to instigate a revolution in free judiciary punishment. They played us like a damn fiddle.

 

[entremet]

Not in before people thinking that these guys, who also all participated in SWATing and possibly Bomb Threats against Planes, shouldn't be locked up in prison.

Oh they should be charged with the fullest extent of the law in their jurisdictions.

But they are minors and I vaguely remember people asking for crazy sentences in a previous thread.

 

[Tambini]

long ban them from the internet, they'll fucking hate that

 

[Weebos]

long ban them from the internet, they'll fucking hate that

Is there a way to enforce something like this? Other than prison of course.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

Is there a way to enforce something like this? Other than prison of course.

Nanomachines?

 

[th4tguy]

Oh they should be charged with the fullest extent of the law in their jurisdictions.

But they are minors and I vaguely remember people asking for crazy sentences in a previous thread.

Not all are minors and some are 16-17 which means in a lot of areas, depending upon the severity of the crime, can be charged as adults. I don't know if this will warrant that type of charge, just how it is.

 

[th4tguy]

Is there a way to enforce something like this? Other than prison of course.

No, not really. You run the risk of someone reporting you or you getting caught but there isn't any great way to enforce it.

 

[SeanTSC]

Oh they should be charged with the fullest extent of the law in their jurisdictions.

But they are minors and I vaguely remember people asking for crazy sentences in a previous thread.

Define "crazy". They SWATed people in the US and given the state of the Police in the US that is basically Attempted Murder. I think it's entirely reasonable for them to be extradited to the US and charged as such if you have *any* idea of how fucked up the Police are right now and how insanely dangerous SWATing someone in the US is.

Then there's the retardation of calling in a Bomb Threat on a Plane and grounding a flight, which is not just a mere prank or joke, that's incredibly serious shit.

 

[Percy]

All kids. What a complete non-surprise.

Hope the punishment is good and harsh, but knowing the nanny state, they'll probably just be told off and sent home with their mums to be grounded for a week.

Good. Fuck those kids.

Jimmy Saville, is that you?

 

[LifEndz]

Kudos to all the law enforcement officials that helped bring these guys into custody. Wondering if this will serve as a deterrent to other would be lizard squad copy cats.

 

[NahaNago]

Let's lock 'em up for life!

Spoiler

Seriously though. These threads are difficult because the American sense of justice is synonymous with assigning punishment. I'll admit that even though I hate the American prison system and fully and wholly acknowledge that rehabilitation is immeasurably better for society, my desire to see "justice served" is too intense to ignore. And I've never even been personally affected by the actions of these kids.

Which isn't to say I want them to see life in prison. But I crave "justice."

Makes me wonder and worry about myself, and the social constructs I try to be conscious of.

I think wanting to see someone punished for doing something wrong is a fairly normal reaction. Rehabilitation is fine as well its just before you do the rehabilitating there should be some punishment before that in my opinion.

 

[serversurfer]

So, the 15 year old kid is the only one still in custody? =/

 

[Palette Swap]

Lock them in a room for five years where they're forced to download, install and update GT6 all day long while watching progress bars fill, with a few breaks where they're allowed to try to browse the store from a PS3.

They'll be husks when they get out.