Destiny, CoD: Ghosts And PSN Servers Down With DDoS Attack, Hacker Lizard Squad Takes Responsibility

Bungie's Destiny servers are down on all platforms, and notorious hacker group Lizard Squard have taken the resposibility of it. The hacker group just few minutes ago posted on their official Twitter account that they have taken down the servers of Call of Duty: Ghosts and Destiny with DDoS attack.

[EvilWay]

Really getting sick of these kids. About to find them and throw some hands

[Owvi]

This is just another nail in their coffin.

[camel_toad]

Have they even stated why they are targeting these specific games/servers? Is it just because theyre high profile games or do they have a vendetta or something?

[Kingthrash360]

No vendetta.....just peel-holes with a pc and no life.
Smh, I simply dislike it when people bother others for attention.

[donthate]

To be fair, the servers were already down for me before the DDOS. Their shit game, Destiny, constantly disconnects anyhow.

[DeadRabbits]

Lizard Squad

The most uncool NERDS ever!

[sinjonezp]

Am I alone on this , thinking that always online games are a word I will not use that begins with SH? Really, I was in the middle of a boss battle on destiny when it went down. I have to repeat process. I really believe that gamers will start turning away from products that you cannot even get past the start screen if you not connected. Personally, online parts should strictly be optional. Main story, side missions should be structured to have playability solo. If you want to do co op, fire teams, etc, okay, ill connect then. But the entire experience, hell, even editing your characters, looking at other content should be accessible no matter! Its frustrating and I hope more gamers back that up or devs will continue to F us. Just like not being able to play MY PLAYER on 2k. Not involving anyone else yet I cannot play because your sorry servers are down. Smh spread the word, and speak from your pockets.

[XBLSkull]

Another example of why I would never pay money for a PS+ account. I'll stick with my free one while you work on that service outage thank you very much. Just checked Xbox Live and it is running perfect if anyone needed to know.

[Volkama]

Destiny does disconnect or fail to connect in the first place all too often.

I hope major third party publishers start using Azure. It is there ready to go, and better than anything they put together themselves.

[n4rc]

Ya.. The game likes kicking you to orbit all the time..

And for the comments about online not working... Look at financial systems for trading etc.. You can have secure reliable connections that idiots like this can't touch..

But it costs money.. And they probably can't justify the costs on a game service that shouldn't need that level of security.

[BX81]

Is this the sequal to revenge of the nerds?

[frenchtoast]

Just...why?? Get a life DDosers

[UltraNova]

@4Sh0w below (my bad)

So how many other '230 billion + ' mega-corps do you know that have risen to that level all in good/legal business practice?

Please dude dont bother. Its easier to defend Hannibal lecter of 'indulging'in cannibalism than defending MS when it comes to questionable practices

[Kidmyst]

Sounds like kids butt hurt they aren't good at playing anything and need to ruin the fun for everyone else. they are taking their ball and going home. Get them a club Penguin account, might be more up their alley.

[buttclown]

I don't know if it has anything to do with it but the past couple days I have been getting this centipede error when I login, or choose character, or during missions or pvp. Pretty much whenever it damn well feels like it. Anyone know if this has anything to do with it?

[AngelicIceDiamond]

They're doing this because they can.

Bunch of no life's, wasting their time, talents and lives on taking down services all day.

Our generation truly has some stupid people...

[SilentNegotiator]

Other generations simply didn't have the internet to express their directionless malice.

Violence is way down ( http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/... ), internet haterz are way up.

[DragonKnight]

DDoS attacks require absolutely no talent.

[UltraNova]

...and rather targeted against Sony somehow even if others tried to make everything controlled via the internet and we all know how much hackers love their freedom when it comes to the internet...

Oh MS you cheeky you...

[ScottyHoss]

Corporate warfare isn't unheard of, and it would be a great way to cover it up by getting hacked too but for less time.

Not hating MS but it is a tactic and it is very possible.

[gootimes]

Didn't they catch these guys already?

[killacal13]

These guys have plenty of time in their hands.

[TheSaint]

It's not the corporations that suffer, it's the gamers. Go die you infantile, hacker pieces of s***.

[LightningMokey]

They arent hackers

[TheSaint]

Maybe not but you sure are pedantic.

[Magicite]

such a waste of talents, they could have worked in some well respected IT organization instead.

[Malphite]

Meh. Don't overestimate those kids. They've probably programmed a botnet and know how to use proxy-servers properly. That's about it. To be fair that's more than most similar groups know. It's nothing to write home about though.

I have a homepage that got DDos'd by some idiot that didn't know he has to turn off all kinds of scripts because some of them will easily bypass the proxy server. He got a nice message from me the next day.

[1OddWorld]

You think Anonymous could find these little pricks and set them straight.

[ShadowWolf712]

Lately I don't think Anonymous could find their own ass with a map.

Too much infighting.

[spacedelete]

this is what happens when the game is online only. it only benefits Bungie and Activision yet so called "gamers" defend this. have fun looking at loading screens and eventually when they shut off their servers.

[CuddlyREDRUM]

I imagine they are very scared.

[Muzikguy]

I'd like for them to come out of their basement one day and say hello to all the friends they've made

[solar]

id be more pissed having to sign in to Xbox Live or PSN to play on console. easy target, once down, you are fucked with a proprietary internet.

[ITPython]

While it is annoying that the servers are down, this does shed a lot of light on the gigantic downside of an always online game (or always online anything). Access to servers on the internet is not guaranteed, and neither is our connection to the internet. It can go down at any time and stay down for any length of time. We should never lean too hard on the internet, cause it can give away at any time, leaving us tumbling to the ground if it was our only support mechanism with no backup plan.

If this keeps happening again and again with Destiny and people really start getting ticked that they can't play (or lose tons of progress), because Bungies servers are down, there is a possibility that Bungie will swallow their pride and make it possible to play the game offline.

These DDOS script kiddies may be trolls of the worst kind, but they might be inadvertently doing the game a huge favor by ridding it of it's always online requirement.

[Whiteford88]

It's getting beyond ridiculous. They have given their mission statement, you think they should be doing more with our money? Yeah maybe they should, but preventing gamers who are already aware of this from playing and enjoying the games they have already spent money on is just plain stupidity and I take it more of as an attack to the gaming community than the server owners.

DDoS attacks are carried out by 11 year olds with mediocre computer skills to make themselves feel like they are 'Hackers'. The reaction from the community is probably exactly what they are looking for, the publicity of being 'hackers' which is wrong, they aren't hacking anything, they're overloading it.

These servers going down are not affecting me as at the moment I've been addicted to Diablo and Battlefield - but the other week when PSN went down I lost it. I've spent AUD $1,300 on this Playstation only to find I have to now pay to get online, fine, whatever, here's another $20 - 2 days into it and these pricks think it's their right to DDoS PSN and I can no longer connect. This didn't make me angry at Sony, this made me mad that there are people out there thinking they have the right to completely take away my ability to enjoy the device. This instantly made me want to turn my PC on and start playing Starcraft again and sell this console and wait till the next console gen, but I shouldn't have to, I should be able to enjoy the console I forked over $1000 out for without you little twits doing the most basic server overload you can!

[otherZinc]

XBOX Live works.

Forza Horizon 2 will work in a few hours, when I get my copy.

I'll bet Bungie would like to use those M$ servers.

You get what you pay for.

[MRMagoo123]

Psn seems to be working for me on phone and console not sure about destiny tho.

[Mega24]

Its only Destiny and Ghost, I got kicked right at the end of Dust Palace. Idk about psn being down, using it as we speak on 3 different platforms.

Edit: This site is giving them credit as "hackers", that implies that they are hacking, when they are not. DDOS is not hacking.

Edit 2: Destiny is back already.

@BG11579

Supposedly, I cant confirm as I don't own an Xbox One.

[BG11579]

Then it's down for everyone, not just for Sony, right?

[Silly gameAr]

I'm wondering why it says PSN is down in the headline, when I've had zero problems with PSN downtime.

[Revolver_X_]

Flamebait, nuff said.

[moegooner88]

It's Gamepur, one PSN user had an issue translates to PSN down for them.

[ITPython]

They get one unverified report about one person not being able to download a game, and that = PSN down.

Just Xbox fanboys trying to spread FUD about PSN reliability any chance they can get. It's really sad and pathetic.

[Rimeskeem]

Fu** you Lizard Squad

[kayoss]

Where's Ray Rice when we need him to lay the smack down on these Lizard squad?!?!?

[Pinkdolphinyfg]

And forrrrrr what? some type of Loser hacker glory?

[bigboss1990]

These pricks need a kick in the teeth

[one2thr]

DAMMIT!!! I WAS JUST ABOUT TO DECRYPT 5 BLUE ENGRAMS!!!!!

Search: Cattle?

[Bryan7portugal]

Just gonna be uncommon lol

[one2thr]

My last 7 i only gotten 1 uncommon, my luck has turned today

[one2thr]

Four strange coins, and a knight type 2 chest armor!!!

Lucky day for me!

[theDivision]

I rarely get greens from blues.... now rares from legendaries that is a completely different story. So far I have gotten more purples from blues than purples from purples.

[G_V_Black]

Don't!

Read the patch notes. As of this week, you'll get blue items or better with your blue engrams. Ditto for purple. Save them.

[NewMonday]

Current purples will be changed to blues post-patch

[FullmetalRoyale]

To what end? How empty does one's life need to be to spend your time trying to deprive others of fun?

I actually pity them. How miserable they must be.

[MSBAUSTX]

Isnt always online great? Man i cant wait until all of that "the future of gaming is streaming" comes true so we can have all of our games rendered useless when something like this happens. Dont get me wrong, Destiny is a good game but this is the problem with games like this. At least COD can be played single player or local multiplayer when the servers go down.

[hkgamer]

cod has an offline mode??? =P only joking.

i just think that if we could host our own private servers then thatwould be a better solution. but now psn multiplayer requires membership i guess that would never happen

[MSBAUSTX]

I actually LOLed at your COD comment. Good one 😊

[joeorc]

Well yes and no..games like DCU or planet side 2 do not need a PlayStation plus requirement etc on the playstation 4. So its not completely required payment for online play multiplayer gaming past paying for your ISP. For all online multiplayer gaming.

[kaizokuspy]

I would never want to play Destiny by myself. It is way better with friends online. With weekly updates to fix exploits, bugs, and add free new content. Locally it would have to be system link, but let's be honest. I'm an adult. When it goes down for 20 minutes or an hour I make a sandwich or cut the grass. Not really a hindrance to me. Really minute in the grand scope of it all.

[SuperBlunt]

Lol thankfully the next four ps4 games im getting heavily emphasize dramatic single player experiences

[Majin-vegeta]

Destiny is back up

[Remy_Chaos]

Wow these idiots are still roaming freely? Wasn't the FBI or such going after them? Such a good showing...
Anyways I guess you can mark down CODAW going down at least twice each month as well.

[hkgamer]

im guessing if the corporation isnt big enough where hundreds of million dollars would be loss over this, then the FBI may not take it so serious.

ofcourse this is my assumption with no basis at all.

[Archer23]

They are taking this serious just not very serious. They actually (as bullies) tweeted American Airlines saying a man had a bomb on the plane and when they landed the plane and noticed he didn't have one it was found they reported a man that was investigating them and that man is now working with the FBI to arrest them (they have found 2 of 3 of them) and they keep making claims that they have no proof (which if you look at twitter they have admitted it many times) lol

[NexGen]

@archer: that "guy" is the president of SOE. He only got involved after that tweet/incident.

[TheJacksonRGN]

So when that person posted an article about Lizard Squad's warning on N4g it gets reported and deleted because it was bringing attention to them but now their warning comes to past and this gets approved? Not saying it shouldn't have but is it too hard to expect this community to stay consistent? The warning shouldn't have been reported.

[CerealKiller]

Threats are not news.

[Torque_CS_Lewith]

They are when the threats come from a credible source.
I'd wanna know if someone threatened to blow up my building.

[mysteryraz11]

hopefully they are put in jail

[Avernus]

Destiny was back up and running in about 15 minutes for me. PSN was never down for me or my friends in the party chat.

This is what nerds do for fun these days? Taking down services? I don't even know why they are called a "hacker group"... DDoS'ing isn't a hack. It's actually pretty easy to do -___-

Oh well. I guess they'll put their "talents" to good use next week again. Taking down another service for a few minutes to get their lulz.

Pathetic.

[Mega24]

"This is what nerds do for fun these days? Taking down services? I don't even know why they are called a "hacker group"... DDoS'ing isn't a hack. It's actually pretty easy to do -___- "

Exactly what I've been saying, but I guess gaming journos don't know the difference. Many gamers don't really seem to understand it either.

[Nicominoru]

The more this happens the less people seem to care. All it does is condition players to expect this. Which means sooner or later these guys will no longer be relevant and that's saying something because they are already pretty insignificant to me.

[hkgamer]

can someone tell me why people actually do this? who benefits or is it just picking on corporates?

also what are ways of preventing this?

actual questions so if anyone can explain to me why?

thanks

[Avernus]

Funny enough, the big companies don't really suffer from this. Sh*t flows downwards, so we the gamers suffer the most.

Preventing? No real prevention, but when it does happen, there are ways to minimize the effect, and then getting the servers back online. Bungie's been pretty good in terms of getting their servers back.

Why they do it? Nerds wanna have fun. Must be pretty depressing living in their parents basement, so this is their entertainment. Getting other people angry.

[ibrake4naps]

Lizard squad are a-holes!

[SLUG]

If this happen again i am going to buy a wiiu their games are off line xbox one destiny game will be up and runing soon i read they need to stop this hacking in games i was doing really good in destiny

[Dontworrybhappy]

Back up!

[CerealKiller]

Can't wait till these kids all get arrested and thrown in a jail cell with big bubba.

[Gigglefist]

I feel like Lizard Squad is actually incapable of doing anything and are actually just a guy who likes to say any DDoS attempt is actually him. What's that? Someone messed up Destiny?
Oh yeah... that was totally me, guys.

[Rimeskeem]

More like Loser Squad

[AD705]

I'm paying 50 bucks a year for PSN and this shit is still happening to PSN? Get your shit together sony.

[isarai]

you do know this type of attack can happen to and affect pretty much any online service right? it has pretty much nothing to do with the security of the servers/service as it's not breaching anything, it's just overloading it with traffic

[DeadlyOreo]

He's a clueless hater who doesn't understand. Just leave him to it.

[isarai]

No one asked for this, they're acting like they're freakin robin hood or some garbage, but their also screwing over the people they claim they're doing this for. seriously put these douche nuggets on prison.

Finally got a good co-op game to play with my best friend since freakin uncharted 2 and Sniper Elite V2 and now we can't even play it thanks to these ass hats

[pelktown]

Who ever these guys are there retarded if u go through any historical records the best terrorist are the one's that have support from the community not the ones that get hated on if u don't believe me do some research on gorilla warfare and see for yourself

[poppinslops]

Yeah, that Planet of the Apes was a sobering experience...

[RoseSapphire]

Does N4G not police this at all?

Why does this headline include PSN other than an attempt to start some sort of firestorm between fanboys?

[psforward]

I was playing Destiny on P'S the entire time...

I'm on the west coast if that matters

[Flames76]

Im so glad i have the XOne and with xbox live.Been a xbox live costumer since 2002 and i can count on 1 hand how many times live has went down.If i was psn customers i be demanding my money back.Damn shame sony charges to play online when you cant even play online 60% of the time.It was ok when psn was free but now its just unacceptable.Its amazing how people got suckered in to buying the ps4 with hardly any exclusives and a online service that you cant even use over half the time.Im sure in time people will wise up or at least lets hope so

[reko]

Fail troll.

[reaperman]

@Flames76 The thing is that Lizard are going after PS rather than XB is because it affects more people.
Its not that Lizard couldn't do the same thing to XB if they wanted to but it just doesn't seem worth the bother to go after the little fish when they can go after the great white.
You also bring up the matter about exclusives and it makes you sound like a broken record.
Maybe there aren't as many exclusives at the moment on the PS4 but the ones that are out are vastly superior to the ones on XBone and they run at 1080p/60fps unlike the struggling Xbone.
I have both a PS4 and an XBone and the best thing about the XBone is that it makes a great paperweight and stops all my important documents blowing away which is a coincidence really as the XBone itself blows!!!!

[IrishSt0ner]

Not true mate, PSN is easier to attack, nothing to do with customer install base. LizardSquad attacked XBL the last round when PSN went out. LIVE had limited login functionality for 30mins, then went back up. I'll quote the culprits at that time:

"Microsoft props to you for giving us a challenge, good work. Sony, smh."

The truth is MS are better protected, they have a dedicated team monitoring their network 24/7 with the ability to switch off data centers and/or redirect traffic.. When a DDoS happens at a MS datacenter, a person see's it and deals with it, this is the only real way to mitigate the damage of a DDoS, short of a complete shutdown.

Doesn't mean XBL can't be brought down, they'd just need a much larger simultaneous attack on multiple datacenters.

I'll not comment on the subjective stuff, just wanted to point out why it appears as if they're attacking Sony and not MS.

[BLow]

You can't play 60% of the time? Really? Well what the hell have I been playing for the past 2 weeks and still launch last year? Oh right, Destiny. You know that online game that you play with other people. Put over 600 hours into Warframe. You know that "offline" game. Must have been dreamin because you said the service is down 60% of the time. So actually I should have over 1200 hours in Warframe. F@ck!!!!! I'm callin Sony cuz I want my money back...haha

If your going to be a fanboy, at least be a good one. You should be targeting your comments towards the people who do this type of stuff. At the end of the day we're all gamers. But I guess that's asking to much from someone like you. Btw, I woke up this morning and I'm logged in both PSN and Destiny. Man that 60% downtime sucks....O_o

[ab5olut10n]

it was down all of 15min for me

[DJStotty]

I was playing Destiny on Xbox one till about half ten UK time last night and it just wouldn't let me invite/see friends. Hopefully be back up tonight when I get home

[XtraTrstrL]

And right when I finally re-download and start playing again after a 2-3 month hiatus. These lil pricks.

[The7Reaper]

Down again I'm getting real tired of this shit they've already proven their selves so why keep going for the same things take down something else taking down PSN, Destiny and CoD Ghosts servers are just showing that's the only 3 things they can do.

[captainexplosion]

Why don't they just masturbate like normal teenagers?

[urwifeminder]

Ha ha how entertaining I do love it when I get to read these comments thanks guys.

[DarXyde]

I get that this is newsworthy and all, but if you're playing the game and it goes down, keep calm and just check their twitter. Odds are, they'll take credit for it. I really don't like the idea of giving these punks the pleasure of front page news. We should really stand together on this and just ignore them. Let the platform holders and developers deal with them. It just irks me to give them the satisfaction of notoriety. Who knows? They might get bored and go away when no one pays any attention. With any luck, they'll do something bigger for attention and leave themselves open to being caught. They're pretty sure of themselves to out their activities...assuming it's really them.

On another note, people have been saying that DDoS attacks require no talent in here. If this is so, is there nothing these companies can do to, you know, stop the same problem from occurring over and over again?

[VinnyTHEpoo]

Xbox Live is still running, but Destiny is a no go. Guess I'll just have to finish up metro redux =P I'm so glad I didn't buy the "Bumb Station"

[HellzAssassin]

PSN wasn't down during this time, just an FYI. I was on party chat with my friends during the time Destiny went down without issue.

[Father__Merrin]

these dammed peices of garbage have nothing better to do but to ruin gamers enjoyment. I wish for their speedy arrest

[neocores]

LoL PsN was never down lol it was only Destiny and Call of duty Ghost

[quenomamen]

Where we suppose to grind now ?

[SpongeThisBullet9]

'The lizard squad'
Hahahaa, sounds like a group of bullies that originated from the 4th grade. What a bunch of losers.

[Jihaad_cpt]

PSN wasn't down. I had a problems with Destiny though

[majedx9]

it's work for me.

[cfc83]

I don't think the lizard squad is a cool enough prison gang name.

[Manubiggs]

OK, Obama, forget about IS for a moment and take down these guys, I'm super cereal right now

[cruzngta]

These little punks are trash. Get a life nerds - go date a girl or better yet try to talk to one - if they got laid they would never do this type of shit again.

[Revengeance]

Lol PSN was barely even down but Xbox drones will blow it out of proportion. But it's okay if XBL gets hit right?

[system22]

Let's compare the trash talking. Look at comments on any ps4 post and then look at an xb1 post. I don't even have to explain. You'll see yourself who the bigger group of fanboys are talking more trash.

And fyi, it was the destiny servers that got hit so it affected xb players too. Good thing you're in a rush to judge

[CuddlyREDRUM]

Start using PS Plus money to stop this stuff, Sony. They are sending you a strong message.

[system22]

Umm. You may not know this because of playstation sales but Sony is broke.

[Noba]

The problem with Destiny being always online is that if you have moderate or strict NAT it randomly disconnects I had to port forward my Xbox so it would stop.

[beereal360]

Destiny is done

[ocelot07]

PSN is fine for me on PS4. In fact it is a lot quicker than it was yesterday. Not sure about Destiny or COD as I don't own them games.

[victorMaje]

Give me 10 minutes with them, face to face, just 10 minutes, please

[StrawberryDiesel420]

For some gamers online gaming is their drug and they will go through withdrawal without it soon enough. They need that fix. It's no coincidence that two most played games on PSN are down.

[Blink_44]

Man, glad I finished the raid 15 mins before this happened.

[system22]

Time for some arrests

[masterfox]

I bet this lizard squad are just pissed off xbone fanboys, I mean theres absolutely no reason why hack the PSN network.

I mean theres nothing bad Sony PS brand being doing for us gamers, as a gamer I'm actually proud of owning a PS4, on the other hand MS xbone their intentions were to control gamers in all possible ways, they should hack MS for all their BS.

So like I said theres absolutely no reason on why hack the Playstation, this are bunch a idiot kids that are just pissed off for some reason, and I think that reason is starting to get pretty obvious.

[peshkavusCA]

I don't know what are these kids thinking. Can't they use their knowledge on somewhere else productive other than ruining other peoples fun?

[KontryBoy706]

put them in jail so they can get hacked too

[CervantesPR1]

Im online right now so idk

[MinnesotaFatts]

At least Brazzers didn't crash this time, but God damn that was hilarious.

[MultiConsoleGamer]

Destiny servers went down and most people didn't even notice because they've already stopped playing the game.

[Knal]

Unfortunate cause Destiny kicks ass!!This game is too godlike!!

[kryteris]

If you can make it to 20, and participate in a clan. w/o the friends list fn up.

[Claudinho69]

i think we should give them the same fate as isis

[MAULxx]

What a bunch of chuckleheads.

[Max-Zorin]

One of many reasons why aliens will never communicate with humanity.

[kryteris]

I thought that this was resolved, but as of right now PSN, and the websites are offline mostly. 4pm Mountain time.

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

both ps3 and ps4 are up for me.

[kryteris]

UP Where?

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

alberta, canada. mountain time.

[HighlyDoubtful]

I own both systems.

I dont understand how MS gets heat for this, besides the "hackers" Sony and the others deserve some blame, at least. Sony needs to do something to stop this from happening over and over.

[GeraltofRivia]

but but but but but console gaming is so simple, put in disk and use couch, no settings ugah ugah ugha

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

This is why I will NEVER support online only games & also because if I feel nostalgic later down the road... I still want to play my game! Not hook up my console & realize I can't cause servers were closed years before!

[hamzilla]

Please stop calling these deadbeats hackers. it is not hacking it is just clogging the server pipes... all it is.. just like in high school when you thought it was funny and cool to clog all the toilets... there for LAME.... and I bet they call themselves Lizard Squad cuz thats all they can play with is each others lizards... deadbeats.. once a deadbeat always a deadbeat...

[GeofferyPeterson]

Even thought I condemn any attack against gamers, maybe this will help kick start more SPG's. People without internet are with me.