you missed a key part of the entire story… this happened because Sony went back on their promise to have free online services and did not reinstate it until after the hacks stopped. These dudes literally saved PS owners hundreds of dollars
The fact these guys had over 100 million minor victims and dozens of real major victims. Called in a fake bomb threat on a plane. Costed companies 10s of millions of dollars, caused 10s of millions of dollars of resources in investigative fees and the most any of them saw were a couple of months blows my mind. I know people who got more jail time for smoking a joint.
@@ACCORDEYANG the pedos and rapist in question are probably rich white folks with a lot of money, like brock turner. get a black guy or even an asian to do just that, see where that gets them.
It's really a miracle that they survived this long, honestly the pause between the first series of attacks and the second one saved their asses for a moment
The one guy, Julius Kivimäki also hacked into Finnish Vastaamo in 2020 and shared personal info of 52 000 inviduals. Probably gets few years again and then goes to do something again. Gotta love this Finnish jail system 👍
Are very stupid because they will now be watched like hawks for a very long time good job ruining any chance at a serious reputation in life. Forever be known as the loses that did childish hacks on gaming consoles mostly hahhahahaha ohhhh so coolllll hahahaha pathetic lol
Agreed they had more important hackers to worry about like infrastructure and agricultural as they could hurt people. Video games is just luxury but they caught them in the end as like a side job.
North Koreans cried that day that they could not watch the propaganda 24/7 news channel on everything great Kim Jon Un has been doing and how he is a god that can never pee, and the 3 propaganda north korean low budget movies.
@@Devilsaur Ordinary people obviously don’t get internet access, but the North Korean govt makes use of it a bit. They have “the Lazarus group” who’s been responsible for a lot of high profile hacks, like against bank and crypto exchanges
@@samrogers6205 yeah but gaming companies are using modern tech software and North Korea probably has no better than an outdated windows 1995. Not as impressive imo
Yea I forgot about them too. The reason the death mechanic was changed was due to other ddosers since the guys in this vid only attacked RuneScape for a very short period.
These guys actually made me play the last of us single player that Christmas. If they hadn’t shut down the psn or whatever they did I probably wouldn’t have played one of the best games ever.
@@D33Z45T3R how are you reading that as me justifying it ? It’s just a simple statement of fact I remember that year I would never have played the last of us, the psn was down so I played the game because I had nothing else to do. Learned shortly after it was because of these guys.
I remember that day, me getting the xbox 360 on Christmas, pure joy. Then to be realise that the servers were down, because of some hackers called the Lizard Squad. 9 year old me at the time didn’t really know what happened and caused me and my dad to lose some excitement as he was struggling to try get it working for me, I wasn’t mad or angry at the time just upset,
@@TheZombiesAreComing because these guys are smart and exposed an opening flaw in the security, meanwhile marijuana only does harm and kills brain cells
@@obsidian0204 TheOnlyGoodOneHere 18 hours ago @TheZombiesAreComing because these guys are smart and exposed an opening flaw in the security, meanwhile marijuana only does harm and kills brain cells
I remember when I was 12 receiving a brand new Xbox One on Christmas 2014 and trying to connect it. I was living with my grandma so when I saw the issues it was having trying to connect to the internet I assumed it was our old wifi having troubles, only for my older brother to Google it and find out that it was some wacko Lizard squad who caused the issue. My grandma also saw this on the news after since she was super into the news and whatnot, and it was overall just a really strange experience. I was quite upset that day of course, but in the end I just waited the next day and was fine. It's crazy to see how their story started and ended. What I'm shocked about the most is their complete lack of punishments. 3 months of prison and a 350k fine and 2 years on watch is literally nothing compared to the amount of information they breached and threats they made. Absolutely insane
@@CrazyChiefXxX Maybe, that would depend on how good they actually are. By the sounds of it all they did was DDoS servers (the bomb threat was equally pathetic as anyone can do that), unless I've missed something they never actually 'hacked' anyone. DDoS'ing is weak, at best. They couldn't even DOX properly, which in my opinion makes them pretty pathetic. I have a lot of respect for people with true talent (as long as they don't use it to damage the reputation of good people/businesses/organisations) and those are the people that get drafted in by the FBI/CIA/NSA/MI6 and all the other 3 letter agencies.
Ah, yes, the Lizard Squad drama. I remember obsessively watching all this crap go down in real time, it was that entertaining. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
@@aliveandwellinisrael2507 Oh, dang, I'd almost completely forgotten about the Lulzsec chaos. That was what, 10 or 11 years ago now? Those guys pulled some wild shenanigans too, lol.
Went to University with Vinnie Omari after he was in LizardSquad, he told me the UK police said he could either go to jail or study cybersecurity and work for them, so that's how he ended in Uni with me lol
@@roeital5504 why? this is pretty much like ding dong ditching, or egging an house, it's not like they scammed people out of money, it's pretty mild as far as cyber crime goes.
You should see the weak ass sentences Finland gives out for BRUTAL murders.... They usually get pardoned by Helsinki Court of Appeals after 15 years!! What do you think they're gonna do with video game hackers?
@@vdrek9900 why though? They ruined christmas for random kids they never met. If you support that because of some dislike of sony or something why not focus that energy at them instead of kids on christmas day? I dont get it. Just trolls ruining things for other ppl.
I love how a big portion of people playing it live in Africa, southern America, and asia, which don't even celebrate Christmas, and the hacker still questions if they don't have anything better to do on "Christmas eve"
"Don't you not feel guilty that you've taken so much enjoyment of gaming away from more than 100 million people?" "Do you not understand how sociopathy works?"
@@WeirdSmellyMan dont need to murder anyone to be a sociopath ; read up the definition. and fyi ; DDOS is not hacking ; nor are fake bomb threats; calling them losers hackers is complimenting them ; they dont deserve that title.
4:45 Someone who launched DDoS attacks and thinks they’re a 1337 hacker, is like someone who doorbell ditches a house and thinks they’re a part of Ocean’s Eleven. That’s basically the impression of everyone working in Cyber Security
like that oceans eleven reference great movie. And I always laugh at people like this, they think their so smart but when the feds get involved it all goes to shit
@Kevin Agustin Santiago Jacobo a dDos attack is super simple, all one has to do is generate “traffic” on a website or server system to the point where a system fails to be able to handle the traffic, this is done by sending encoded bits of information called “packets” back and forth across the ports (access points) for the system. It can be accomplished by nearly any random person with about 2 hrs google time and a prewritten dDos machine
@@kevinagustinsantiagojacobo698 There are many kinds DoS attacks, and I’m not sure which the Lizard Squad was using. To follow up on what Captain Mike said, there are a couple of analogies that could help explain it. For example, one kind of attack could be similar to continuously calling someone’s phone so nobody else can get through; now imagine your phone company saying “hey you’re putting a burden on our network, so we’re gonna automatically drop every call you get for awhile.” Another kind of attack could be like me ordering a bunch of Pizzas from different restaurants and giving them your address; it ends up taking you a lot longer to sort it out than it does for me to keep calling in the orders. This is an example of both Amplification and Reflection which is the “best” kind of DoS attack. In both of those examples, the attacker doesn’t need any knowledge or creativity. Random teenagers could do it if they’re bored one day.
the roots of lizard squad started where they would sometimes anonymously arange ddos attacks on companies websites. a few years some of the organisers of the ddos attacks teamed up
I can imagine the lead hacker of Lizard Sqaud getting interrupted by his mom offering bagels at 9 am on Christmas morning edit: stop taking this seriously it's a joke
@@marishiten5944 I don't think you understand the joke, I'm making fun of the lead hacker because he probably still lives with his parents and doesn't have a job.
"I'd be more worried if those people didn't have anything better to do than to play games on their consoles on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day." - the guy who spent Christmas DDoSing gaming companies
lol my thoughts exactly, not that these people can grasp that kind of logic. Its clear just from looking at their faces in these interviews that they have some obvious mental issues.
Managing to ddos large companies is ironically still more productive. Takes some work and learning and practice and could honestly be a real skill in life.
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the fact they called TheFinest a bunch of "kiddies" while their member on drama alert and on the news interview were obviously way younger than TheFinest's member is so funny
@@b0exi comment never said skids he said they was called kiddies . But yes I know lol love sitting in them boot discords while they try boot eachother offline while calling eachother skids 😭
One of those Lizard squad members is now suspected of breaching Finnish Psychiatric company's Vastaamo database and blackmailing their clients about releasing their personal data online if they not pay ramsom. These actions eventually caused this Vastaamo company going for bankrupt.
They didnt hack Vastaamo, thats the real problem. That company had zero protection or safeguards and the data was easily accessible by anyone with a decent knowledge of the internet. The company was a total scam company run really badly. It was wrong what that one guy did (not lizard squad, one guy who is no longer a member) but it was bound to happen sooner or later when someone noticed the total lack of security. Both the hacker and company were at fault there. It is good they went bankrupt as they were a very immoral company. Nobodys data was ever actually released and it triggered a massive increase in security in medical systems across Europe, which was badly needed. So you could argue it was good overall i guess.
There was a story about how a father had to go to the Malaysian airport to go see his Brother since he was very sick but since the Airport had been Hacked he couldn't do anything but wait until they would eventually go back online.Sad thing is his brother died in the morning a day after.
Hi Crumb. Just wanted to say that Bradley's file is publicly accessible through the Dutch court (including a lot of the chats he was having with the other members). From what I've just read he has received 180 hours of community service and/or 2 months in prison
@@Rerbun the judicial thinking in most eu countries is that if the sentence is under x time (2 yrs in sweden) then it is seen better for the society and the convicted if he can serve it by ankle monitor/community service/etc. But only if the convicted is not seen as likely to reoffend or is a flight risk. So to get community service at the end means he is not likely to reoffend or flee, and would therefore get the whole sentence as community service. I would guess...
I remember when this happened, and they ruined my gaming time back then i was so upset for days. i was hooked with black ops on Playstation. When i was a teenager, Im glad you uploaded this to know the true story. 👍
This was the most insane thing that happened in the gaming community, it was during my christmas break in elementary school. Playstation n xbox servers were down n the only thing everyone knew was lizard squad. What a throwback.
Aside from their DDoS attacks, the members of Lizard squad would DOXX random people who criticized them. If you look them up on google a news story talks about some of the SWATTING attacks they did and mention in particular a League of legends Twitch streamer that they harassed to the point she dropped out of college, stopped streaming, and had her life ruined. I work in the IT Center for the University that the woman streamer attended when one of the lizard squad members harassed her, DOXXED, and SWATTED her many time. They called into the call center trying to gain access to their account. The member of lizard squad was livestreaming the doxxing via a 3rd party streaming site. Was crazy man.
I vividly remember when this happened. I had a PS3 modding team at that time and none of us were able to do anything online. We would just chat through Skype but our gaming time was cut short for a while, while on Christmas break from school. I was honestly pretty impressed, and it made me want to get more into hacking and modding. My modding team actually tried to look into it and see how they were doing this but we never really found out much. Really cool times, I must say.
@@ICONOCLAST I was a kid when this happened, my life wasn't ruined lmao. If all it takes to "ruin a kids life" is for gaming servers to go down for 9 days then maybe the kid should get some fresh air. Just sayin. Games aren't real life let's get that straight.
@@ICONOCLAST I guess we won't talk about all the things we know today from hackers getting the information for us. What about the time anonymous leaked a full list of names and addresses of known KKK members? Or the fact that someone knew how to stop/deterr Lizard Squad by HACKING them back, keeping your precious gaming servers up. Not all hacking is bad hacking. Ethical Hacking is a thing. Look it up.
@@ICONOCLAST Hope that works out for you man. Just keep an open mind. You of all people should know that in order to fight against hackers and their programs, you need to understand how they work, and then take counter measures. Which in turn kind of turns you into a hacker aswell. It's all about the knowledge. The tools are there it just depends on how you use them, for good or for bad. Have a great day brother, and best of luck with your CyberSecurity course
@@sergeiandreivich2720 wow thats crazy how in 2014 they might not have been old enough to work a job and im sure that if there parents bought them a brand new console would want them to play it
@@sergeiandreivich2720 Imagine being the parent who bought your kid a PlayStation only for them to toss it aside and run off. Imagine not being a tech savvy parent and think you got your kid a BROKEN Christmas gift, if I were a parent I'd die inside. Like, yeah special family time, that's WHY they got it for you, using the gift you were given is a part of the Christmas experience, even if it's a video game, because it was still given to you. Maybe if you mean playing by yourself.
You know, I think I was bothered by this back in the day. Though I knew nothing about Lizard Squad and probably just accepted the downtime and spent time with Family. Thanks Lizard Squad for giving me valuable Family time!
Crazy that I missed this because I took a online gaming hiatus during that time due to financial circumstances. I only ever heard about it. Definitely a crazy story
@@marishiten5944 that's the thing they weren't hardened networks at all and extremely easy to hack if you had a bit of money. The only thing stopping people before was the repercussions which turned out to not be so bad. Nowadays you can't do what they did
What amazes me is that, like these guys said, DDOS-ing major company's servers, and disabling hundreds of thousands of people's "new-gen" systems can be accomplished so easily, but so few, so anonymously... Not acquitting these few for their actions, but the idea that ALL these major companies should spend a LOT more resources protecting their assets should be obvious.
Being a hacker that launches DDOS attacks against large companies is like taking the evil path in Read Dead Redemption, you gain nothing from it and people just hate you.
They leaked their customer list on purpose, I remember them posting on twitter a note with all credit card info and names of all the people who paid for the stresser
Hey king, great video but small addition: the dutchie Bradley Jan Willem van Rooy, from leiden, had been swiftly arrested by the dutch police after a request from the FBI, he reportedly faced a maximum sentence of 10 years with possibility of extradition to the US. Also, he didn't even make attempts to hide his ip, logging in to his twitter without tor or vpn lmao
I remember Christmas 2014. I got a playstation 4 from my father (as much for him as me lol). We tried to set up our playstation account for hours. We never realized this is probably why we struggled so much. We sent the confirmation email for our account in a dozen times with no response. We assumed it was just a crowded server but this makes so much more sense. Absolute morons, all of them.
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i live in the Netherlands trust me, there are some fine hackers here just as long as you dont challenge em and i wont be surprised if one of em ended up getting shot later on, some people hold grudges longer than you think
What i like about the FBI and most national departments of investigation is these tactics of letting the hackers run loose thinking the FBI is nowhere near them, Because that force them make more mistakes than usual
No, it's because the government is actually incompetent. Why do you think these guys got almost no time? Because they're contracting for the Government.
I was one of the Christmas victims, in 2014 I remember getting an Xbox one for Christmas & being really excited to play but I couldn’t bc servers were down. Couldn’t even play offline because the Xbox needed updating & required creating an account before starting up for the first time.
Those hackers are now on Santa's naughty list. Edit: And by "Santa's naughty list", I mean Santa's list of people who misbehaved and done a lot of disgraceful things. I just wanna clarify that.
the dutch guy that was charged with together with Zachary was arrested in the netherlands two weeks after the case started in the usa. he apparently was commiting all those crimes from his house while living right next to a police station lol
So happy this video blew up in the algorithm. Congrats on sponsoring Runescape Chronicles as well, I hope you can't keep up with the orders until next Christmas. 🤣 But for real, you make my favorite videos on TH-cam currently and I love it. ❤️
@@Crumb Wow, didn't know it'd been that long. I read the goat comments all the time, but still don't understand it and I'm too lazy to look up what it means, but I'm sure it's endearing. 🤣 Thanks and keep up the awesome work.
Holy shit, this brings back so many memories. As someone who has been very big into the gaming community and Twitter community, this was an insane time lol. The craziest thing is seeing things such as Machinima, Keemstar, etc... brings back so many memories lol
These kinds of attacks are know where near ad common as they used to be I can't remember the last time there has been a nation wide outage for playstation oflr xbox
"I'd be rather worried if those people didn't had anything else to do on Christmas day", said the dude who was literally ddossing millions of people instead of celebrating Christmas, on Christmas day. I also be our dear Juliu's dad is very probably an extremely rich tech CEO because I simply cannot believe the most ridiculous penalty, it's insulting!
great video, very nostalgic some more backstory: 14-16 year old me used to frequent discord servers that vinnie and others did too, what happened to him, or at least what he claimed, is that he made a deal with the UK secret service to drop all charges if he worked for them. his lack of actual compsci skill and hunger for attention highly makes me doubt this, but considering he wasnt in jail or prison id assume he got off on probation and/or paid a fine. later on he was seen on twitter, bragging about bribing a mcdonalds to let him sit in a closed off area among other similar goofy attention grabs/flexes. also theres a video where he gets involved in a street fight with someone else from that "scene" and he just got completely curb stomped lol. i tried to find it but it hasnt been uploaded anywhere afaict. word back then was that they didnt even own the botnet they used for all this but merely borrowed access to it from an acquaintance that actually knew some stuff, really goes to show what a reckless tantrum for attention all of it was.
I did my first Denial of Service attack when I was 12 years old. I then took it a step further and developed a well used mod menu for Call of Duty Black Ops 2 at the age of 14 and since then I could only laugh about "hackers" that feel hacky and nerdy because they can execute a (probably not even self-written) script that sends some bs data packages towards a target. Woohoo. You're hacker man, bro. You so kewl. I know when people on xbox live used cain and able to grab the ip adresses from players in their lobbies if they were better and then they were willing to pay $10 to a third party DoS-Service to boot a random player off the internet for like 15 minutes. And thats what they thought would make a "hacker" out of them.
so at that young age you choose to ruin the experience of millions of players by creating cheats? Did you get mad about losing games or what? I really don't understand what makes a person create harm to others for fun. You are not better than them, or worse. You are both just stupid i guess imo, but i would love to read an explanation about what made you do those things if you wanna share.
@@quickscope8034 well, back then it was super rare to find people with modded xboxes in Black Ops 2. I dont want to legitimate my behaviour, and yes, you're right, some people may have been gotten mad, but overall it couldnt be too annoying for them, because like I said, there were just a few cheaters (you met one every 6 months or so). And second, no, I was really good in Call of Duty to be honest, it was just the programming part that got me hooked. Thats why I chose to study applied computer science.
Lol I remember those times. I never really got deep into it but I had a best friend that used to setup huge botnets to hit people off with. Like we’re talking tens to hundreds of thousands of bots just to hit some kids spectrum connection. He ended up in some trouble but never served time. He basically gave up after he almost got hit with a swatting charge for something he actually had no part in. I don’t miss those days at all
they ruined starting your console for the first time as a gift from parents and "santa", i bet you weren't having a walk and playing board games on christmas u a loser
they do, theyre called cyber security companies and they make a lot of money. if there wasnt any good hackers out there, we'd still be sending passwords in plain text.
Great video Crumb, I remember these guys and kinda surprised you left out the ransom stuff they did. When they were attacking some influencer level people and told them to write Lizard Squad on their foreheads in order to stop their attacks.
My heart goes out to the players who were affected. I didn’t even realise these attacks were going on at the time, because I was playing games on Nintendo devices, which from what I can see were not affected.
How amazing is it that if these guys had done what the host said and gone into a house to physically destroy a child's game system, then they would've faced more jailtime than what they did for all these hacks and threats? Insane.
1, that's breaking and entering, and 2, that's destroying property, shutting off the game system for an few hours is not comparable with rendering the system permanently destroyed
@@stefthorman8548 breaking and entering is the real issue. ddossing an entire server is actually alot worse than a few hundred dollars in damages... if you break property you generally just have to pay for it. cybercrimes can go up to 10 year sentences.
To be fair, I forgot about this until you mentioned 2014 Christmas. Then I was like oh yeah the rampant ddos attacks on Playstation. Then I bought a pc afterwards cause I called the system and servers trash. Lmao 🤣
Just to add (as found in Dutch newspapers) Bradley was arrested and taken into custody and was awaiting extradition to the US. Couldn't quickly find much more on that. I think he ended up being sentenced in the Netherlands but I'm not sure what the final punishment was.
I despise that these groups are called "hackers" when it's easy to get these IP's and also easy enough to rent a botnet whether it be a cloud or basically black market $X amount of money for X amount of computers infected via trojan for X amount of time. Obviously not all groups are going to be no skill rejects that only DDoS but the majority are.
People always say "they should have used their talents for good." It's hard to get recognition for doing good hacking it seems. That's all these guys wanted
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The whole time this was happening I was in my "Retro phase" for gaming I had no idea what was even going on I literally missed this whole thing. I'm happy I didn't play online games when this was happing I would of been furious if I couldn't play.
I literally missed all of this as well but in my case this when I got into indie gaming. Shovel Knight came out a month before the attacks. Was too busy striking the earth and rocking out high above the sky.
i think i was effected with this i think i wanted to download a dlc for a game and couldn't actually do that so i just went back to playing the game without actually downloading the dlc
When I actually heard about this I felt horrible for everyone. After long day's of being outside/working people just wanna come home and Unwind basically and Video games def play a huge role in that.
I remember this my cousin had just got laid off from work, and playing online and venting was what got both of us through that difficult patch. This was the most moronic thing to do in reality.
Hope you're having a good day legends, enjoy the video & thanks for dropping by ❤
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Fantastic video, was a great watch during breakfast!
i was havung a fantastic christmas and BOOM my brand new xbox one is totally useless for over a week i was so frickin mad
im not having a good day tbh, but thank you for the nostalgic time of 2014
you missed a key part of the entire story… this happened because Sony went back on their promise to have free online services and did not reinstate it until after the hacks stopped. These dudes literally saved PS owners hundreds of dollars
"Like most aweful things, it all started with league of legends" so true
Or minecraft hcf lol the world we live in
Yea?
Is it ???
Your honor... League of Legends...
Death!
@@mattblah8379 minecraft is sick what do you mean
awful*
The fact these guys had over 100 million minor victims and dozens of real major victims. Called in a fake bomb threat on a plane. Costed companies 10s of millions of dollars, caused 10s of millions of dollars of resources in investigative fees and the most any of them saw were a couple of months blows my mind. I know people who got more jail time for smoking a joint.
Government priorities am I rite
I got a felony and did two years in prison on a 50 dollar drug deal, and i wasnt even the dealer.
@@ACCORDEYANG the pedos and rapist in question are probably rich white folks with a lot of money, like brock turner. get a black guy or even an asian to do just that, see where that gets them.
The master mind didn’t even go to jail
America is fucked up
@@Number.1Yanfei.Fan123 every country is
"This guy apparently cried in court.." best part of the video.
All for a measly 3 month sentence lmao. 3 months is annoying AF, but it’s not worth crying over if you’re claiming to be some tough guy hacker.
@@___DRIP___ ngl he was prob crying of happiness like "only 3 months for real!?" I'd be surprised too tbh
@@___DRIP___ we gon ignore the 350k?
3 months isnt that much tbh, i bet hes gonna go running around boasting how one time he was in prison lol
@@___DRIP___ ooh so you would go to jail with a tough guy face, i think you would conquer it
It's really a miracle that they survived this long, honestly the pause between the first series of attacks and the second one saved their asses for a moment
The one guy, Julius Kivimäki also hacked into Finnish Vastaamo in 2020 and shared personal info of 52 000 inviduals. Probably gets few years again and then goes to do something again. Gotta love this Finnish jail system 👍
Are very stupid because they will now be watched like hawks for a very long time good job ruining any chance at a serious reputation in life. Forever be known as the loses that did childish hacks on gaming consoles mostly hahhahahaha ohhhh so coolllll hahahaha pathetic lol
it’s funny that they thought the FBI didn’t get them because they were too good.
it’s not because they’re amazing, it’s because they don’t care.
Facts
They were building a case
@@Bot-mf8gs True.
@@vanityseason they did care lol
Alot by how it ended up
Agreed they had more important hackers to worry about like infrastructure and agricultural as they could hurt people. Video games is just luxury but they caught them in the end as like a side job.
Taking North Korea offline is not the most incredible hacking feat, that’s like 4 websites 😂
North Koreans cried that day that they could not watch the propaganda 24/7 news channel on everything great Kim Jon Un has been doing and how he is a god that can never pee, and the 3 propaganda north korean low budget movies.
fr NK’s internet is so shit its not even worth it
@@Devilsaur Ordinary people obviously don’t get internet access, but the North Korean govt makes use of it a bit. They have “the Lazarus group” who’s been responsible for a lot of high profile hacks, like against bank and crypto exchanges
its still an entire country bruh
@@samrogers6205 yeah but gaming companies are using modern tech software and North Korea probably has no better than an outdated windows 1995. Not as impressive imo
I totally forgot about these guys! They're the reason why RS changed how death works and why everyone keeps their stuff now. Thanks for memories!
Yea I forgot about them too. The reason the death mechanic was changed was due to other ddosers since the guys in this vid only attacked RuneScape for a very short period.
I still remember them because of their interview with Reviewtechusa
It’s was the greatest Christmas may God we actually spent time together the best god damn Christmas ever
I forgot about them too. Because they're weren't that notorious.
@@Labyrinth6000 do you remember when and if the Review Tech video is still up?
These guys actually made me play the last of us single player that Christmas. If they hadn’t shut down the psn or whatever they did I probably wouldn’t have played one of the best games ever.
goated game. fat w
Huh? Care to elaborate if you don't mind? If you do mind then have a great day
That's such a stupid take lol. Like The Last of Us was going to self destruct if they didn't shut down PSN. You'd have just played it later.
Ah yes, justifying ruining millions of other people's Christmas just because you got to play the Last of Us. (it is amazing though I must admit)
@@D33Z45T3R how are you reading that as me justifying it ? It’s just a simple statement of fact I remember that year I would never have played the last of us, the psn was down so I played the game because I had nothing else to do. Learned shortly after it was because of these guys.
This is one of those special cases called "losers with power".
Then why were they winning?
@@KickingAssDaily losers with power
@@ducksongfans Why are they losers, if they are winning?
@@KickingAssDaily because they mean to call them incels
@@MatthewT394 they arent
If you ever think you are sad or worthless, just look at how these 'hackers' spent their Christmas.
should put their skills to use, well actually at least they shut North Koreas internet.
@@anim8dideas849 intranet. north korea has an intranet
@@DorperSystems what's an intranet?
@@Miguel-cg2vz Trans internet I guess
there's plenty of room on this planet for all of us to be sad and worthless at the same time
You might not be able to arrest a lizard, but you can arrest a guy claiming to be one.
Facts
so true
mark zuckerburg : 👀💦
@@Un0_ LMAO, I was about to say that.
Exactly. All they have to do is figure out who they are and they can bring them in.
I remember that day, me getting the xbox 360 on Christmas, pure joy. Then to be realise that the servers were down, because of some hackers called the Lizard Squad. 9 year old me at the time didn’t really know what happened and caused me and my dad to lose some excitement as he was struggling to try get it working for me, I wasn’t mad or angry at the time just upset,
Feel like their punishment was super lenient. Cost literal million in damages across the world, yet only a handful of years between them?
Only 3 months? Yea, people get more than that for marajuna.
@@TheZombiesAreComing because these guys are smart and exposed an opening flaw in the security, meanwhile marijuana only does harm and kills brain cells
@@theonlygoodonehere2259
"come get me bro" isn't smart, it's hubris. Nothing about your argument is logical and is merely you simping for them.
@@TheZombiesAreComing what was the original comment
@@obsidian0204
TheOnlyGoodOneHere
18 hours ago
@TheZombiesAreComing because these guys are smart and exposed an opening flaw in the security, meanwhile marijuana only does harm and kills brain cells
I remember when I was 12 receiving a brand new Xbox One on Christmas 2014 and trying to connect it. I was living with my grandma so when I saw the issues it was having trying to connect to the internet I assumed it was our old wifi having troubles, only for my older brother to Google it and find out that it was some wacko Lizard squad who caused the issue. My grandma also saw this on the news after since she was super into the news and whatnot, and it was overall just a really strange experience. I was quite upset that day of course, but in the end I just waited the next day and was fine. It's crazy to see how their story started and ended. What I'm shocked about the most is their complete lack of punishments. 3 months of prison and a 350k fine and 2 years on watch is literally nothing compared to the amount of information they breached and threats they made. Absolutely insane
they exposed flaws and exploits in the security system, government usually goes light on people like them for that stuff
thats probly because shortly after their sentance.... they got a job offer from the FBI... or the NSA
@@CrazyChiefXxX Maybe, that would depend on how good they actually are. By the sounds of it all they did was DDoS servers (the bomb threat was equally pathetic as anyone can do that), unless I've missed something they never actually 'hacked' anyone. DDoS'ing is weak, at best. They couldn't even DOX properly, which in my opinion makes them pretty pathetic. I have a lot of respect for people with true talent (as long as they don't use it to damage the reputation of good people/businesses/organisations) and those are the people that get drafted in by the FBI/CIA/NSA/MI6 and all the other 3 letter agencies.
@@CrazyChiefXxX assuming it was just ddosing, they definitely did not 💀
@@theonlygoodonehere2259 ddos attacks are nothing new
Ah, yes, the Lizard Squad drama. I remember obsessively watching all this crap go down in real time, it was that entertaining. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
Same here
Yep. Lulzsec was pretty entertaining too
@@aliveandwellinisrael2507 Oh, dang, I'd almost completely forgotten about the Lulzsec chaos. That was what, 10 or 11 years ago now? Those guys pulled some wild shenanigans too, lol.
Lmao Lulzsec omg I remembered. wtf XD but I was in PoodleCorps so I only got the wind.
What you consider entertainment I consider rage inducing.
Went to University with Vinnie Omari after he was in LizardSquad, he told me the UK police said he could either go to jail or study cybersecurity and work for them, so that's how he ended in Uni with me lol
Shit police, he should have been arrested regardless
@@roeital5504 Shit happens constantly with hackers, they either get time or a new job
@@roeital5504 why? this is pretty much like ding dong ditching, or egging an house, it's not like they scammed people out of money, it's pretty mild as far as cyber crime goes.
@@stefthorman8548hence why he’s going to university since he has the base skills that can be developed further
lol
The tale of Lizard Squad really is scary since a couple of dudes in their basements were able to take down entire Networks.
And countrys
It’s just a ddos attack educate yourself
You act like DDOS attacks are something that can only be done with extreme resources. It’s very easy
@@707josh do it then
@@707josh I don’t mean ddosing your average discord server Dumbass I mean entire countries
They basically werent held accountable at all. What a depressing ending.
You should see the weak ass sentences Finland gives out for BRUTAL murders.... They usually get pardoned by Helsinki Court of Appeals after 15 years!! What do you think they're gonna do with video game hackers?
Hhahaha
@vdrek9900 that's great when you support the anti hackers
@@why_nate_whythat's why an NPC shouldn't have internet access
@@vdrek9900 why though? They ruined christmas for random kids they never met. If you support that because of some dislike of sony or something why not focus that energy at them instead of kids on christmas day? I dont get it. Just trolls ruining things for other ppl.
Nothing quite says “my parents don’t love me” than trying to make other people miserable on Christmas
Literally the irl Grinch lol
Lizard squad was based
@@YungPhilosopher Based from their mom's basement it is.
Naw people just like seeing others mad
skill issue
I love how a big portion of people playing it live in Africa, southern America, and asia, which don't even celebrate Christmas, and the hacker still questions if they don't have anything better to do on "Christmas eve"
We de celebrate Christmas in anmost all of South America tho
Except a lot of places you listed do
In most of Africa Christmas is celebrated???
Especially if your parents can actually afford to pay for a Game console.
"which don't even celebrate Christmas" ..... Bro is d. .mb
"Don't you not feel guilty that you've taken so much enjoyment of gaming away from more than 100 million people?"
"Do you not understand how sociopathy works?"
Like the tens of thousands of people who followed those jerks,they must have gotten a thrill from it too.
Saying that they are sociopaths is a bit ridiculous. There's people who do much worse that aren't sociopaths.
@@WeirdSmellyMan ridiculous…? These guys are literally the definition of sociopathy.
@artemis7084 so you think that because they hacked into some game services they could literally murder a child and feel nothing?
@@WeirdSmellyMan dont need to murder anyone to be a sociopath ; read up the definition.
and fyi ; DDOS is not hacking ; nor are fake bomb threats; calling them losers hackers is complimenting them ; they dont deserve that title.
This one checked all the boxes, great work
Glad you enjoyed it :)
@@PartyhatRS The boxes that make up a great video? Thorough; Researched; Factual. Idk how else to clarify that for you, im sorry! 😅
@@AshleyAcademy don’t forget humorous
@@Number.1Yanfei.Fan123 it's the comments that keep it going long after the show is over 👍
@@Crumb The way you pronounced MEGA ruined my kid’s Christmas bro.
4:45 Someone who launched DDoS attacks and thinks they’re a 1337 hacker, is like someone who doorbell ditches a house and thinks they’re a part of Ocean’s Eleven. That’s basically the impression of everyone working in Cyber Security
Agreed
like that oceans eleven reference great movie. And I always laugh at people like this, they think their so smart but when the feds get involved it all goes to shit
i was wonering on that comment on the reporter saying its not that big of a job can you give me more details want to know how up there asses were
@Kevin Agustin Santiago Jacobo
a dDos attack is super simple, all one has to do is generate “traffic” on a website or server system to the point where a system fails to be able to handle the traffic, this is done by sending encoded bits of information called “packets” back and forth across the ports (access points) for the system. It can be accomplished by nearly any random person with about 2 hrs google time and a prewritten dDos machine
@@kevinagustinsantiagojacobo698 There are many kinds DoS attacks, and I’m not sure which the Lizard Squad was using. To follow up on what Captain Mike said, there are a couple of analogies that could help explain it.
For example, one kind of attack could be similar to continuously calling someone’s phone so nobody else can get through; now imagine your phone company saying “hey you’re putting a burden on our network, so we’re gonna automatically drop every call you get for awhile.”
Another kind of attack could be like me ordering a bunch of Pizzas from different restaurants and giving them your address; it ends up taking you a lot longer to sort it out than it does for me to keep calling in the orders. This is an example of both Amplification and Reflection which is the “best” kind of DoS attack.
In both of those examples, the attacker doesn’t need any knowledge or creativity. Random teenagers could do it if they’re bored one day.
the roots of lizard squad started where they would sometimes anonymously arange ddos attacks on companies websites. a few years some of the organisers of the ddos attacks teamed up
Damn what a blast from the past. Hard to believe this was 8 years ago. I remember going to machinimas site and seeing it was all messed up
exactly dude, 2014 feels like yesterday lmao
@@erickj3929 so true
I remember hopping on PS3 just to see the servers were down and wasn't very happy about it 😂 what a day to remember
NO WAYL THAT WAS 8 YEARS AGO
I can imagine the lead hacker of Lizard Sqaud getting interrupted by his mom offering bagels at 9 am on Christmas morning
edit: stop taking this seriously it's a joke
lol
"COMING MOMMMMM"
So he has a mother that loves him? I mean, how is that a bad thing? Do you not have family that cares about you?
@@marishiten5944 I don't think you understand the joke, I'm making fun of the lead hacker because he probably still lives with his parents and doesn't have a job.
@@intdisaster why should he work on christmas?
"I'd be more worried if those people didn't have anything better to do than to play games on their consoles on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day."
- the guy who spent Christmas DDoSing gaming companies
lol my thoughts exactly, not that these people can grasp that kind of logic. Its clear just from looking at their faces in these interviews that they have some obvious mental issues.
@@jamiecf2698 Correct me if i understand your wrong, but basically what you are saying is, that every hacker have mental issues according to you?
@@herppderpp7458 haha what? thats not what i said at all. i was talking about the lizard squad specimens in the video
Managing to ddos large companies is ironically still more productive. Takes some work and learning and practice and could honestly be a real skill in life.
@@UdderlyMilky actually it requires downloading a program off the dark web and letting it run. Its really not complicated at all.
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the fact they called TheFinest a bunch of "kiddies" while their member on drama alert and on the news interview were obviously way younger than TheFinest's member is so funny
"skid" (stands for script kiddie) is an insult among hackers. Which insults their skills in hacking.
@@b0exi comment never said skids he said they was called kiddies . But yes I know lol love sitting in them boot discords while they try boot eachother offline while calling eachother skids 😭
@@exotikz7905 💀💀
Wow I remember this so well but had no idea what was going on exactly at the time. This video was very well done!
@@legendarymoments8229 pp
One of those Lizard squad members is now suspected of breaching Finnish Psychiatric company's Vastaamo database and blackmailing their clients about releasing their personal data online if they not pay ramsom. These actions eventually caused this Vastaamo company going for bankrupt.
They didnt hack Vastaamo, thats the real problem. That company had zero protection or safeguards and the data was easily accessible by anyone with a decent knowledge of the internet. The company was a total scam company run really badly. It was wrong what that one guy did (not lizard squad, one guy who is no longer a member) but it was bound to happen sooner or later when someone noticed the total lack of security. Both the hacker and company were at fault there. It is good they went bankrupt as they were a very immoral company. Nobodys data was ever actually released and it triggered a massive increase in security in medical systems across Europe, which was badly needed. So you could argue it was good overall i guess.
damn
They flew Julius back into Finland (from where-ever he was hiding) for this, and he finally got what he had coming for him. This was big enough crime.
That’s fucked. Guys a monster
I've watched a number of these today. Egos gets them every time.
There was a story about how a father had to go to the Malaysian airport to go see his Brother since he was very sick but since the Airport had been Hacked he couldn't do anything but wait until they would eventually go back online.Sad thing is his brother died in the morning a day after.
Very likely also very likely to be fake
@@EEEEEEEEEEEE18 yeah true
Hi Crumb. Just wanted to say that Bradley's file is publicly accessible through the Dutch court (including a lot of the chats he was having with the other members).
From what I've just read he has received 180 hours of community service and/or 2 months in prison
Both? Usually in europe u get either.. like x hrs service is x weeks in jail. Atleast that how it works in Nordic countries.
@@kungfreddie hmm I recall it was worded in quite a confusing way so maybe it was indeed either of the 2
@@Rerbun the judicial thinking in most eu countries is that if the sentence is under x time (2 yrs in sweden) then it is seen better for the society and the convicted if he can serve it by ankle monitor/community service/etc. But only if the convicted is not seen as likely to reoffend or is a flight risk. So to get community service at the end means he is not likely to reoffend or flee, and would therefore get the whole sentence as community service. I would guess...
@@kungfreddie I agree, that's very likely. I will edit my comment to clarify
“Like most awful things, it started with League of Legends” made me burst out in laughter lmao
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@@hoghuhaghu8506 Bru
@@hoghuhaghu8506 I agree with your statement
@@hoghuhaghu8506good point
I remember when this happened, and they ruined my gaming time back then i was so upset for days. i was hooked with black ops on Playstation. When i was a teenager, Im glad you uploaded this to know the true story. 👍
"Like most awful things, it all started with League of Legends." truer words have never been spoken
these dudes ruined my christmas when i got my ps4 i remember having to wait 2 weeks to get online
Derrick forreal lmfao, Talk to George lately ?
Where’s George at
@@QueenOfDump I'm glad I'm not the only one that caught that name and what it's from lmfao
George foreman
@@raven3946 YOURE GONNA LOVE MY GRILL
This was the most insane thing that happened in the gaming community, it was during my christmas break in elementary school. Playstation n xbox servers were down n the only thing everyone knew was lizard squad. What a throwback.
Aside from their DDoS attacks, the members of Lizard squad would DOXX random people who criticized them. If you look them up on google a news story talks about some of the SWATTING attacks they did and mention in particular a League of legends Twitch streamer that they harassed to the point she dropped out of college, stopped streaming, and had her life ruined. I work in the IT Center for the University that the woman streamer attended when one of the lizard squad members harassed her, DOXXED, and SWATTED her many time. They called into the call center trying to gain access to their account. The member of lizard squad was livestreaming the doxxing via a 3rd party streaming site. Was crazy man.
This should have been made more clear in the video tbh
They deserve a colombian necktie
I vividly remember when this happened. I had a PS3 modding team at that time and none of us were able to do anything online. We would just chat through Skype but our gaming time was cut short for a while, while on Christmas break from school. I was honestly pretty impressed, and it made me want to get more into hacking and modding. My modding team actually tried to look into it and see how they were doing this but we never really found out much. Really cool times, I must say.
@@ICONOCLAST I was a kid when this happened, my life wasn't ruined lmao. If all it takes to "ruin a kids life" is for gaming servers to go down for 9 days then maybe the kid should get some fresh air. Just sayin. Games aren't real life let's get that straight.
@@Teelur any form of hacking isn’t “cool.” Let’s get THAT straight, that’s my point here, you don’t gain shit from it
@@ICONOCLAST I guess we won't talk about all the things we know today from hackers getting the information for us. What about the time anonymous leaked a full list of names and addresses of known KKK members? Or the fact that someone knew how to stop/deterr Lizard Squad by HACKING them back, keeping your precious gaming servers up. Not all hacking is bad hacking. Ethical Hacking is a thing. Look it up.
@@Teelur of course ethical hacking is a thing, I’m going into cybersecurity so I know a thing or two lol.
@@ICONOCLAST Hope that works out for you man. Just keep an open mind. You of all people should know that in order to fight against hackers and their programs, you need to understand how they work, and then take counter measures. Which in turn kind of turns you into a hacker aswell. It's all about the knowledge. The tools are there it just depends on how you use them, for good or for bad.
Have a great day brother, and best of luck with your CyberSecurity course
This has a nostalgic feeling to it. Thanks for making me feel young again crumb!
You still are young
@@Ryan-uh9le what ?
@@Zappy-ray777 you still are young
@@Ed_geins you still are young
@@Zappy-ray777 you still are young.
Lizard Squad defacing Machinima is probably (accidentally) the nicest thing they ever did.
I would say knocking out north Korea internet was pretty nice
they have internet in north korea?
@@cooker0ratsOnly in certain areas
Its been a while since i've truly been sucked into a video like this. The pacing, script, animations are amazing. Especially the pacing! Great Job.
I remember how IRRITATED I was that christmas. I actually had completely forgotten about these saps until this showed up in my feed. Good video!
imagine playing games at christmas💀 get a life please, they did good job to make some people enjoy something special without playing video games
@@sergeiandreivich2720 Imagine telling others to get a life online. Sounds much worse than games to me. :)
@@sergeiandreivich2720 wow thats crazy how in 2014 they might not have been old enough to work a job and im sure that if there parents bought them a brand new console would want them to play it
@@sergeiandreivich2720 Imagine being the parent who bought your kid a PlayStation only for them to toss it aside and run off. Imagine not being a tech savvy parent and think you got your kid a BROKEN Christmas gift, if I were a parent I'd die inside. Like, yeah special family time, that's WHY they got it for you, using the gift you were given is a part of the Christmas experience, even if it's a video game, because it was still given to you. Maybe if you mean playing by yourself.
@@sergeiandreivich2720 u typing this from prison bro?
You know, I think I was bothered by this back in the day. Though I knew nothing about Lizard Squad and probably just accepted the downtime and spent time with Family. Thanks Lizard Squad for giving me valuable Family time!
Crazy that I missed this because I took a online gaming hiatus during that time due to financial circumstances. I only ever heard about it. Definitely a crazy story
@RealSweetKid Lol I'm actually on a financial gaming hiatus right now lol
the only lesson i learned from this entire story is to not be as dumb as them
not to be as lonely as them*
The dudes hacked multiple hardened networks. Dumb? Haha.
@@marishiten5944 that's the thing they weren't hardened networks at all and extremely easy to hack if you had a bit of money. The only thing stopping people before was the repercussions which turned out to not be so bad. Nowadays you can't do what they did
@@marishiten5944if he was smart he wouldnt of got caught so yes dumb
Then the video worked.
What amazes me is that, like these guys said, DDOS-ing major company's servers, and disabling hundreds of thousands of people's "new-gen" systems can be accomplished so easily, but so few, so anonymously... Not acquitting these few for their actions, but the idea that ALL these major companies should spend a LOT more resources protecting their assets should be obvious.
Being a hacker that launches DDOS attacks against large companies is like taking the evil path in Read Dead Redemption, you gain nothing from it and people just hate you.
You make these stories so much more interesting, Thanks for making such good content Crumb!
I love to see how far you've come Crumb, this is amazing stuff. Keep going!
Always appreciate you king :)
They leaked their customer list on purpose, I remember them posting on twitter a note with all credit card info and names of all the people who paid for the stresser
this video was nostalgic for me, i remember following both Lizard Squad and Finest Squad. what a sequence of events
Hey king, great video but small addition: the dutchie Bradley Jan Willem van Rooy, from leiden, had been swiftly arrested by the dutch police after a request from the FBI, he reportedly faced a maximum sentence of 10 years with possibility of extradition to the US. Also, he didn't even make attempts to hide his ip, logging in to his twitter without tor or vpn lmao
you make these stories so much more interesting. crumb you rock
Man I missed these, They are so good. All the research you put into these plus the clips and articles. Top shelf content Crumb 👍🏼
Thanks king
Giga chad
I remember Christmas 2014. I got a playstation 4 from my father (as much for him as me lol). We tried to set up our playstation account for hours. We never realized this is probably why we struggled so much. We sent the confirmation email for our account in a dozen times with no response. We assumed it was just a crowded server but this makes so much more sense. Absolute morons, all of them.
I also remember the attacks. I was a child who was shocked at their childishness.
“Like most awful things it started with league of legends” had me dying 😂
Your content is so good. I came here looking for info on OSRS as a former RuneScape player from 03-09. Between the Josh Pirrault documentary, those who support their family’s farming gold, and this one - I truly hope you can get more & more recognition & subscribers ❤
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I lived through this and your editing style made it so interesting even though i already knew it all. Subbed bro keep growing
Thank you King
Christmas is ruined but its a good thing that I have the sponsor of todays video private internet access
i live in the Netherlands trust me, there are some fine hackers here just as long as you dont challenge em and i wont be surprised if one of em ended up getting shot later on, some people hold grudges longer than you think
I remember the Xbox Live thing on Christmas. I was so pissed and that was the first time I've heard from Lizard Squad. Man 8 years ago...
What i like about the FBI and most national departments of investigation is these tactics of letting the hackers run loose thinking the FBI is nowhere near them, Because that force them make more mistakes than usual
You put too much trust in bureaucratic institutions such as the FBI... they are just as incompetent as they are.
No, it's because the government is actually incompetent. Why do you think these guys got almost no time? Because they're contracting for the Government.
I was one of the Christmas victims, in 2014 I remember getting an Xbox one for Christmas & being really excited to play but I couldn’t bc servers were down. Couldn’t even play offline because the Xbox needed updating & required creating an account before starting up for the first time.
Those hackers are now on Santa's naughty list.
Edit: And by "Santa's naughty list", I mean Santa's list of people who misbehaved and done a lot of disgraceful things. I just wanna clarify that.
You on my naughty list 🥵
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the dutch guy that was charged with together with Zachary was arrested in the netherlands two weeks after the case started in the usa. he apparently was commiting all those crimes from his house while living right next to a police station lol
So happy this video blew up in the algorithm. Congrats on sponsoring Runescape Chronicles as well, I hope you can't keep up with the orders until next Christmas. 🤣
But for real, you make my favorite videos on TH-cam currently and I love it. ❤️
Thank you man
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Holy shit, this brings back so many memories. As someone who has been very big into the gaming community and Twitter community, this was an insane time lol. The craziest thing is seeing things such as Machinima, Keemstar, etc... brings back so many memories lol
I never knew about this when it was happening but omg these guys were annoying af. Glad they got caught. Awesome vid btw!
They were so proud of themselves and wanted to reveal themselves so they could get real personal recognition, it cost them though.
dang that’s crazy, let’s hope the same crap like this doesn’t happen this year
oh it will
dont jinx it bro
There are a few people who might be able to but I doubt they will
These kinds of attacks are know where near ad common as they used to be I can't remember the last time there has been a nation wide outage for playstation oflr xbox
I hope it does.
Mann we needed thattt i went out to the movies that night and the line in to see the interview was litttt got us all out of the house that night
"I'd be rather worried if those people didn't had anything else to do on Christmas day", said the dude who was literally ddossing millions of people instead of celebrating Christmas, on Christmas day. I also be our dear Juliu's dad is very probably an extremely rich tech CEO because I simply cannot believe the most ridiculous penalty, it's insulting!
great video, very nostalgic
some more backstory: 14-16 year old me used to frequent discord servers that vinnie and others did too, what happened to him, or at least what he claimed, is that he made a deal with the UK secret service to drop all charges if he worked for them. his lack of actual compsci skill and hunger for attention highly makes me doubt this, but considering he wasnt in jail or prison id assume he got off on probation and/or paid a fine.
later on he was seen on twitter, bragging about bribing a mcdonalds to let him sit in a closed off area among other similar goofy attention grabs/flexes.
also theres a video where he gets involved in a street fight with someone else from that "scene" and he just got completely curb stomped lol. i tried to find it but it hasnt been uploaded anywhere afaict.
word back then was that they didnt even own the botnet they used for all this but merely borrowed access to it from an acquaintance that actually knew some stuff, really goes to show what a reckless tantrum for attention all of it was.
I did my first Denial of Service attack when I was 12 years old. I then took it a step further and developed a well used mod menu for Call of Duty Black Ops 2 at the age of 14 and since then I could only laugh about "hackers" that feel hacky and nerdy because they can execute a (probably not even self-written) script that sends some bs data packages towards a target. Woohoo. You're hacker man, bro. You so kewl. I know when people on xbox live used cain and able to grab the ip adresses from players in their lobbies if they were better and then they were willing to pay $10 to a third party DoS-Service to boot a random player off the internet for like 15 minutes. And thats what they thought would make a "hacker" out of them.
dud, I paid for a stressor, I'm a hacker now!
ok
so at that young age you choose to ruin the experience of millions of players by creating cheats? Did you get mad about losing games or what? I really don't understand what makes a person create harm to others for fun. You are not better than them, or worse. You are both just stupid i guess imo, but i would love to read an explanation about what made you do those things if you wanna share.
@@quickscope8034 well, back then it was super rare to find people with modded xboxes in Black Ops 2. I dont want to legitimate my behaviour, and yes, you're right, some people may have been gotten mad, but overall it couldnt be too annoying for them, because like I said, there were just a few cheaters (you met one every 6 months or so). And second, no, I was really good in Call of Duty to be honest, it was just the programming part that got me hooked. Thats why I chose to study applied computer science.
Lol I remember those times. I never really got deep into it but I had a best friend that used to setup huge botnets to hit people off with. Like we’re talking tens to hundreds of thousands of bots just to hit some kids spectrum connection. He ended up in some trouble but never served time. He basically gave up after he almost got hit with a swatting charge for something he actually had no part in. I don’t miss those days at all
If your Christmas is ruined by not being online… go outside, have a walk, play a board game.
they ruined starting your console for the first time as a gift from parents and "santa", i bet you weren't having a walk and playing board games on christmas u a loser
But i dont have legs and a board
You don’t get to dictate how others spend their Christmas
The fact that they made the news so many times just made them even bolder
One day, some of these hackers should do something nice instead of doing bad.
yeah like 4channers
In short: breaking bad.
they do, theyre called cyber security companies and they make a lot of money. if there wasnt any good hackers out there, we'd still be sending passwords in plain text.
More then likely working very hush hush operations now
Lapsus$ hacked Nvidia a little while back. everyone was supporting it too, for both motive and hate for Nvidia.
Great video Crumb, I remember these guys and kinda surprised you left out the ransom stuff they did. When they were attacking some influencer level people and told them to write Lizard Squad on their foreheads in order to stop their attacks.
Oh man so many different attacks, I really wanted to cover them all, but ended up sticking to the main large ones for sake of keeping the story moving
@@Crumb makes sense
My heart goes out to the players who were affected.
I didn’t even realise these attacks were going on at the time, because I was playing games on Nintendo devices, which from what I can see were not affected.
18:42 Finally, some justice. So satisfying.
Yeah
How amazing is it that if these guys had done what the host said and gone into a house to physically destroy a child's game system, then they would've faced more jailtime than what they did for all these hacks and threats? Insane.
They were gonna do that?
1, that's breaking and entering, and 2, that's destroying property, shutting off the game system for an few hours is not comparable with rendering the system permanently destroyed
@@stefthorman8548 breaking and entering is the real issue.
ddossing an entire server is actually alot worse than a few hundred dollars in damages...
if you break property you generally just have to pay for it. cybercrimes can go up to 10 year sentences.
15:55 LMFAOO what did he expect, like , *did he forget they literally made BOMB THREATS*
I found this attack quite funny as the gaming community has only been worse since 2014.
To be fair, I forgot about this until you mentioned 2014 Christmas. Then I was like oh yeah the rampant ddos attacks on Playstation. Then I bought a pc afterwards cause I called the system and servers trash. Lmao 🤣
Just to add (as found in Dutch newspapers) Bradley was arrested and taken into custody and was awaiting extradition to the US. Couldn't quickly find much more on that. I think he ended up being sentenced in the Netherlands but I'm not sure what the final punishment was.
good
I despise that these groups are called "hackers" when it's easy to get these IP's and also easy enough to rent a botnet whether it be a cloud or basically black market $X amount of money for X amount of computers infected via trojan for X amount of time. Obviously not all groups are going to be no skill rejects that only DDoS but the majority are.
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People always say "they should have used their talents for good." It's hard to get recognition for doing good hacking it seems. That's all these guys wanted
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14:13 yea put you spent your Christmas on your computer all day too😂
The whole time this was happening I was in my "Retro phase" for gaming I had no idea what was even going on I literally missed this whole thing. I'm happy I didn't play online games when this was happing I would of been furious if I couldn't play.
It was infuriating but nothing serious came from it in the gaming community. It was down a couple days
I literally missed all of this as well but in my case this when I got into indie gaming. Shovel Knight came out a month before the attacks. Was too busy striking the earth and rocking out high above the sky.
i think i was effected with this i think i wanted to download a dlc for a game and couldn't actually do that so i just went back to playing the game without actually downloading the dlc
When I actually heard about this I felt horrible for everyone. After long day's of being outside/working people just wanna come home and Unwind basically and Video games def play a huge role in that.
@@jeffreydavis2578Really? Ehh I mean that still sucks but that really could of been way way!! Worse.
"they should have better things to do than play video games on Christmas"
- Kid who spent all day on his computer for Christmas
This will forever be a piece of history.
14:08 LIZARD SQUAD WAS SLIM SHADY ALL ALONG?
Oh no here comes Marshall to clean this up!
Suppose when the Gower brothers had rough drawings of Runescape they’d ever imagine it would be such a huge source of illegal activity?
They did, it’s the credit card companies that threaten to cut ties that they finally gave in.
Like Mark Zuckerberg trying to use computers to get past his low social acumen suddenly becoming one of the most powerful and hated people on earth
@@fvckgoo9le242 “yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.”
The game was rigged from the start.
I remember this my cousin had just got laid off from work, and playing online and venting was what got both of us through that difficult patch. This was the most moronic thing to do in reality.
whomp whomp