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  • Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune

    Lizard Squad's founding member pleads guilty to cyber-crimes

    by 
    Saqib Shah
    Saqib Shah
    12.22.2017

    A 20-year-old has pleaded guilty in a Chicago federal court to launching cyberattacks and harassment campaigns as a founding member of the hacker-for-hire groups Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp, according to the Chicago Tribune. Between them, the two outfits knocked both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live offline in 2014, took down the UK's National Crime Agency website the following year, and breached thousands of CCTV cameras for DOS attacks against companies.

  • Olivia Harris/Getty Images

    'Pokémon Go' expansion marred by a possible cyberattack

    by 
    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    07.16.2016

    Good news! Pokémon Go is available in 26 more countries... if you get a chance to play, that is. Trainers can now grab the mobile game across a wider swath of European nations (such as the Netherlands and Sweden), but temporarily went down amid reports of a possible distributed denial of service attack. The internet collective PoodleCorp claims to have flooded Pokémon Go servers worldwide with enough traffic to effectively render them useless.