UK police arrest alleged member of Lizard Squad

UK police on December 30, 2014, arrested Vinny Omari, a suspected member of Lizard Squad, a hacker organization that claimed responsibility for hacking the Xbox Live and PlayStation Network gaming networks on Christmas Day 2014.



The police released the appropriate release:

The southeastern Regional Anti-Organized Crime Unit arrested a 22-year-old man from Twickenham on charges of fraud produced by computer technology.

The arrest was made on December 30 in connection with the cyber fraud investigation, which took place between 2013 and August 2014, during which the victims reported that their funds were being lost from PayPal accounts.

Winnie Omari reported that the police took away his computers, game consoles and USB devices.
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Group Lizard Squad "stole Christmas" from gamers, attacking PlayStation Network and XboxLive on December 25 last year. December 26, the work of Xbox Live was restored, and PSN was put into operation only on December 28, three days after the start of the DDoS attack. Investigators have determined that the Lizard Squad members are based in the USA, Canada and the UK, and at least one of them is in Finland . Later, the group tried to attack Tor - unsuccessfully, since Tor was created taking into account the situation created by hackers with the aim of hacking and obtaining information.