Phantom Squad Hacking Group Claims Credit For Three-Hour Xbox Live Outage

An anonymous reader writes: The Phantom Squad hacking group appears to have anticipated its own Christmas schedule for attacks on the Xbox and PlayStation networks by taking credit for a three-hour outage on Xbox Live services in the last 24 hours. Apparently the group, which has disassociated itself from the Christmas 2014 attacks on the PS4 network, claims like them to be engaging in PenSec testing for gaming networks, and before itsTwitter account was suspended tweeted: 'If cyber security really has existed. Then what we do should not be possible.'

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It's boring.

[tgibson]

It is adolescent. There is so much to discover in the world from molecular biology to astrophysics and all these folks can muster as their contribution to humanity is to hold their dicks in their hands and giggle as they frustrate people for a few hours who are trying to play computer games. Pathetic.

Re:It's boring.

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

It is adolescent. There is so much to discover in the world from molecular biology to astrophysics and all these folks can muster as their contribution to humanity is to hold their dicks in their hands and giggle as they frustrate people for a few hours who are trying to play computer games. Pathetic.

Bingo, and well said.

These little wankers haven't done anything except show that it's easier to break stuff than to make stuff.

It's like throwing a rock through a window and then bragging about it, as if it had taken the slightest bit of skill or intelligence or insight, or anything.

Honestly, if someone hunted these pukebags down and beat the living shit out of them, I'd have a hard time feeling but joy about it. I know it would be wrong, but I'd be hard pressed to condemn it.

Re:And nobody noticed

[Z00L00K]

And nobody really cares if services like Xbox Live goes down. It's only affecting a few users.

But if it was an impact on Wall Street then it would be headlines all over.