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UK Arrest Over Xbox Live and Playstation Network Outages

Posted by timothy on from the but-officer-I-was-having-fun dept.

An anonymous reader writes Neowin.net is reporting the arrest of one Vincent Omari, a UK citizen [see also this Daily Mail story from a few days ago mentioning Omari], in the Christmas Day DDoS attacks on Sony's PSN and Microsoft's XBL systems: "In documents sent to Neowin, Vinnie Omari has been accused of 'hacking of the Playstation Network and Xbox Live systems over the Christmas Period'... While this is the first arrest related to the recent service disruptions, it may not be the last... In further conversations with those who are familiar with the investigation and the arrest, Omari believes that the police will not find anything of substance on his computers. His alleged crime is that he helped coordinate the DDOS attack on the service."

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  1. Deportation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I expect that if this individual is found guilty of causing these DDoS attacks, he'll be deported to the US to serve his sentence, due to the "Special Relationship" we have with them.

    And once in prison over there, he'll begin receiving DDoS attacks on his rectum.

    And what I mean by that is that there will be so many penises being forced up his bottom, he won't be able to poo.