Lizard Squad ddos’er gets two years suspended prison
The Lizard Squad member who managed to shut down both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network via a DDoS attack around Christmas 2014 has been sentenced by the Finnish court to a two-year suspended prison sentence. He was tried as a minor.
Julius Kivimäki was one of the guys who shut down both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network through a DDO attack around Christmas 2014. He was sentenced to two years in prison for, among other things, computer burglary, fraud and theft of a large number of data. The hacker, who is part of the ‘hacker group’ Lizard Squad under the alias Ryan and Zeekill, has been found guilty of, among other things, theft of credit card data and misuse of credit card data. In addition, the Espoo court found him guilty of harassment. In addition to the suspended sentence, he will be placed under surveillance to prevent further computer crime, reports the Finnish newspaper Kaleva. The court tried the boy as a minor because he was 15 and 16 years old at the time of his actions.
The Lizard Squad became best known for claiming large-scale DDOs attacks late last year. In December of last year, a DDOs attack shut down the online networks of both Xbox and PlayStation consoles, preventing millions of players from playing online during their Christmas days off. Kim Dotcom finally managed to stop the ddos attacks by bribing the Lizard Squad with €300,000 worth of Mega Vouchers. The ddos attacks turned out to be a ‘promotional stunt’ for the Lizardstresser service by the Lizard Squad. This allowed users to carry out DDOs attacks for a fee.
Update, 14.35: Some details clarified based on the translation from Finnish.