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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