Another Lizard Arrested, Lizard Lair Hacked
Summary: U.K. authorities arrested an 18-year-old in Southport, near Liverpool, in connection with the Christmas denial-of-service attacks on Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox, one of several arrests in a joint U.K.-U.S. investigation into the group calling itself Lizard Squad. Around the same time, the group's LizardStresser attack-for-hire site was hacked and its customer database leaked to investigators, showing 14,241 registered users, plain-text passwords, and more than $11,000 in bitcoins deposited for attacks.
Key Takeaway: The LizardStresser database shows a paid attack service with 14,241 registered users and over $11,000 in bitcoin deposits, and the group's attacks on Microsoft and Sony were run as commercials for that service. The 18-year-old arrested is described as operating only on the fringes, with the core members still at large.
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