Lizard Squad Hacker Who Shut Down PSN, Xbox Live, And An Airplane Will Face No Jail Time

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/07/09/lizard-squad-hacker-who-shut-down-psn-xbox-live-and-an-airplane-will-face-no-jail-time/

By Paul Tassi
Contributor
Forbes.com
7/09/2015

Last Christmas, a hacking collective known as the “Lizard Squad” managed 
to take down PSN and Xbox Live right as everyone was attempting to play 
their consoles during holiday, creating one of the worst outages in the 
history of either network. The attacks soon evolved into a more personal 
nature, targeting then-president of Sony Online Entertainment, John 
Smedley, which included posting his personal details and actually 
grounding an American Airlines flight he was on with a Twitter TWTR 
-1.15%-issued bomb threat.

Since then, everyone has been wondering just who the members of Lizard 
Squad were and if they’d ever be brought to justice. Recently, one 
individual, 17 year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki was identified, and 
after standing trial in his native Finland, has just been convinced of an 
incredible 50,700 charges of computer-related crimes.

He will serve a two-year suspended sentence, and effectively face no jail 
time.

If you imagine the general public might be upset about such a lax 
sentence, you’d be right, but no one is more angry than John Smedley 
himself, now leading Daybreak, the studio responsible for games like H1Z1 
and Planetside 2.

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