http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2734392/Hackers-send-bomb-threat-Sony-exec-s-plane-shutting-Playstation-Network.html
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
26 August 2014
Hackers attacked Sony's PlayStation Network and apparently disrupted the
travel plans of a top company executive by going on Twitter to suggest
that there was a bomb on his American Airlines plane.
American cut short the Sony Corp. executive's flight on Sunday and made an
unplanned landing in Phoenix.
The plane with 179 passengers and a crew of six was scheduled to fly from
Dallas to San Diego but stopped for what the FBI termed a security threat.
American Airlines declined to comment on the threat.
A Twitter account called Lizard Squad tweeted to American Airlines that
there might be explosives on the plane carrying John Smedley, the
president of Sony Online Entertainment, which makes video games.
The same account also claimed responsibility for the PlayStation Network
outage.
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