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# Lizard Squad

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# Hacked
Taylor Swift responds to Lizard Squad's hacking attempt in perfect fashion
The hacking group took over her Twitter and Instagram accounts earlier today.
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Jan 27th 2015, 6:26 PM
# facebook down
Lizard Squad claim they hacked Facebook. NOT true, says the website
Facebook and Instagram were down for about 40 minutes this morning.
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Jan 27th 2015, 10:25 AM
# Lizard Squad
Hackers claiming to support Islamic State have done this to Malaysia Airlines
It is the latest attack linked to a group calling itself the Lizard Squad.
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Jan 26th 2015, 9:54 AM
# security flaws
The group that brought PSN/Xbox Live down gets a taste of its own medicine
Both usernames and passwords of those using Lizard Squad’s tool LizardStresser, a tool which allowed anyone to launch their own DDoS attack, were exposed after it was allegedly hacked.
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Jan 19th 2015, 4:49 PM
# sweetener
Sony is hoping discounts and extensions will make up for PSN's Christmas outage
Playstation Network went down over the Christmas period after a group called Lizard Squad allegedly performed a cyberattack on it.
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Jan 2nd 2015, 9:42 AM
# hack attack
Sony suffers another cyberattack as Playstation Network goes down
Users were unable to log in to the service for a number of hours as a hacker group overwhelmed it with high traffic.
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Dec 8th 2014, 10:00 AM