Tag: Lizard Squad

John Smedley Quits Twitter After Argument Leads to DDOS, Threats


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John Smedley has quit Twitter, an announcement that will have a good portion of Daybreak’s communities giving a sigh of relief. Responding to a thread on Reddit over his account suddenly going dark, Smedley confirmed that he is walking away from the social media platform.

I really love making games. It makes me happy. I saw Twitter as a great way to talk 1-1 with players which I love doing. I’m simply not going to let this make me lose focus….but I am going to walk away from Twitter and not miss it for a second. Life’s too short to let things distract me from what I really like doing. I will miss the interaction with our players though. A great deal.

Whether he left voluntarily or was pressured from within Daybreak, Smedley’s exist is likely due to a rather high profile event last week where Smedley called out a couple of members of Lizard Squad. The hacker group responded with a series of attacks on Daybreak’s servers, which escalated to doxxing threats against Daybreak employees.

(Source: Reddit)

Lizard Squad Member Convicted, Gets No Jail Sentence


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Finland has successfully convicted Julius Kivimaki of over fifty thousand counts of cyber crime for his role in the attacks on Sony and Microsoft’s networks along with other members of the hacker group Lizard Squad. With fifty thousand counts under his belt, you might be wondering if Kivimaki will be going to prison for the next three hundred years. He won’t be. In fact, he won’t be going to prison at all.

Considering the weight and damage of Kivimaki’s actions, the seventeen year old is being handed the equivalent of a two-year suspended sentence, meaning he won’t be spending any time behind bars unless he manages to violate the conditions of his parole. As part of the sentence, Kivimaki’s online activities will be heavily monitored.

Finland’s judicial system has been under heavy criticism for years over its perceived lenient treatment of white collar criminals. In December last year, a Helsinki court handed out three five-month suspended sentences and one sixteen month suspended sentence to a group charged with collecting money to fund terrorist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia.

(Source: Daily Dot)

Weekend Wrapper: We Aren’t Merging Articles


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It’s Sunday, and you know what that means: You’re playing Triad Wars, thanks to the giveaway here at MMO Fallout. Well you should be, anyhow. As we descend into the barren wasteland that is the summer of gaming, I see the Weekend Wrapup getting smaller and smaller.

Anyway, get a Triad Wars beta key. If you already have one, get one for your parents.

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