Two members of hacker group Lizard Squad now faces cybercrime charges after being arrested by authorities. The group is infamously known to be responsible to the downtime suffered by PlayStation Network and Xbox live.
The U.S. Department of Justice revealed that allaged Lizard Squad members named Bradley Jan, Willem van Rooy and Zachary Buchta were nabbed with "conspiring to damage protected computers." Both teenagers are now in police custody with Buchta in Maryland and Van Rooy in Netherlands, Gamespot reported.
Additionally, more arrests of alleged members of the hacker group were made in the UK. All the suspects were between 15 and 18 years old, Polygon reported.
One member, a Finnish teenager justified the attacks saying that it was a demonstration against the poor security of both gaming networks. He has since been sentenced to four months to four years in prison.
PSN and Xbox live suffered a downtime with Lizard Squad claiming responsibility for the attack. The group rendered the gaming networks useless in the busiest season of 2014 costing Sony and Microsoft good money. The group was alleged to have overloaded servers and blocked out legitimate traffic by sending huge amounts of data towards specific IP addresses.
The attack was deemed substantial enough that PSN offered purchase discounts, subscription extensions and other premiums to its customers. The attack was deemed novel leveraging a massive botnet of home routers. A month later, the hacking tool sold by Lizard Squad had also been hacked revealing more than 14,000 people that signed up to use it.
