Information about the users of Lizard Squads on-demand LizardStresser DDoS service has been stolen and passed on to authorities. Police in the United Kingdom have already made arrests based on the data they received. The tool was reportedly used to bring down Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live over the holidays. It’s not hard to imagine how something like Lizard Squad could be only the precursor to a much more serious and businesslike hacker-for-hire operation. Only a few hundred of the more than 14,000 who subscribed were active, paying customers.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/news/lizard-squad-ddos-operation-brought-weak-security-practices/