Hackers Ruined Christmas For 100,000,000 People
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On the 18th of August, 2014 a new Twitter account was created: Lizard Squad. They were launching DDoS attacks against many of the biggest gaming companies, and no one was sure who they were or how to stop them. Then, a plot was made, Lizard Squad vowed to take Xbox and PlayStation down for Christmas, so nobody could play. But a new hacker crew was on the scene, FInestSquad, and they promised to stop LizardSquad in their tracks. What happened next was an epic struggle to save Christmas with many ups and downs. This video documents the timeline of Lizard Squad, from how it started, what happened, and how it all eventually came down.
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00:00 The Beginning
05:40 Christmas
05:46 PIA Sponsor
06:49 Christmas
13:30 The Downfall
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Hope you're having a good day legends, enjoy the video & thanks for dropping by ❤
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Fantastic video, was a great watch during breakfast!
i was havung a fantastic christmas and BOOM my brand new xbox one is totally useless for over a week i was so frickin mad
im not having a good day tbh, but thank you for the nostalgic time of 2014
you missed a key part of the entire story… this happened because Sony went back on their promise to have free online services and did not reinstate it until after the hacks stopped. These dudes literally saved PS owners hundreds of dollars
The fact these guys had over 100 million minor victims and dozens of real major victims. Called in a fake bomb threat on a plane. Costed companies 10s of millions of dollars, caused 10s of millions of dollars of resources in investigative fees and the most any of them saw were a couple of months blows my mind. I know people who got more jail time for smoking a joint.
Government priorities am I rite
I got a felony and did two years in prison on a 50 dollar drug deal, and i wasnt even the dealer.
@@BADMONADY the pedos and rapist in question are probably rich white folks with a lot of money, like brock turner. get a black guy or even an asian to do just that, see where that gets them.
The master mind didn’t even go to jail
America is fucked up
@@Number.1Yanfei.Fan123 every country is
"Like most aweful things, it all started with league of legends" so true
Or minecraft hcf lol the world we live in
Yea?
Is it ???
Your honor... League of Legends...
Death!
@@mattblah8379 minecraft is sick what do you mean
awful*
It's really a miracle that they survived this long, honestly the pause between the first series of attacks and the second one saved their asses for a moment
The one guy, Julius Kivimäki also hacked into Finnish Vastaamo in 2020 and shared personal info of 52 000 inviduals. Probably gets few years again and then goes to do something again. Gotta love this Finnish jail system 👍
Are very stupid because they will now be watched like hawks for a very long time good job ruining any chance at a serious reputation in life. Forever be known as the loses that did childish hacks on gaming consoles mostly hahhahahaha ohhhh so coolllll hahahaha pathetic lol
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"This guy apparently cried in court.." best part of the video.
All for a measly 3 month sentence lmao. 3 months is annoying AF, but it’s not worth crying over if you’re claiming to be some tough guy hacker.
@@___DRIP___ ngl he was prob crying of happiness like "only 3 months for real!?" I'd be surprised too tbh
@@___DRIP___ we gon ignore the 350k?
3 months isnt that much tbh, i bet hes gonna go running around boasting how one time he was in prison lol
@@___DRIP___ ooh so you would go to jail with a tough guy face, i think you would conquer it
Taking North Korea offline is not the most incredible hacking feat, that’s like 4 websites 😂
North Koreans cried that day that they could not watch the propaganda 24/7 news channel on everything great Kim Jon Un has been doing and how he is a god that can never pee, and the 3 propaganda north korean low budget movies.
fr NK’s internet is so shit its not even worth it
@@devilsaur Ordinary people obviously don’t get internet access, but the North Korean govt makes use of it a bit. They have “the Lazarus group” who’s been responsible for a lot of high profile hacks, like against bank and crypto exchanges
its still an entire country bruh
@@samrogers6205 yeah but gaming companies are using modern tech software and North Korea probably has no better than an outdated windows 1995. Not as impressive imo
These guys actually made me play the last of us single player that Christmas. If they hadn’t shut down the psn or whatever they did I probably wouldn’t have played one of the best games ever.
goated game. fat w
Huh? Care to elaborate if you don't mind? If you do mind then have a great day
That's such a stupid take lol. Like The Last of Us was going to self destruct if they didn't shut down PSN. You'd have just played it later.
Ah yes, justifying ruining millions of other people's Christmas just because you got to play the Last of Us. (it is amazing though I must admit)
@@D33Z45T3R how are you reading that as me justifying it ? It’s just a simple statement of fact I remember that year I would never have played the last of us, the psn was down so I played the game because I had nothing else to do. Learned shortly after it was because of these guys.
There was a story about how a father had to go to the Malaysian airport to go see his Brother since he was very sick but since the Airport had been Hacked he couldn't do anything but wait until they would eventually go back online.Sad thing is his brother died in the morning a day after.
Very likely also very likely to be fake
@@EEEEEEEEEEEE18 yeah true
it’s funny that they thought the FBI didn’t get them because they were too good.
it’s not because they’re amazing, it’s because they don’t care.
Facts
They were building a case
@@Bot-mf8gs True.
@@vanityseason they did care lol
Alot by how it ended up
Agreed they had more important hackers to worry about like infrastructure and agricultural as they could hurt people. Video games is just luxury but they caught them in the end as like a side job.
If you ever think you are sad or worthless, just look at how these 'hackers' spent their Christmas.
should put their skills to use, well actually at least they shut North Koreas internet.
@@anim8dideas849 intranet. north korea has an intranet
@@DorperSystems what's an intranet?
@@Miguel-cg2vz Trans internet I guess
there's plenty of room on this planet for all of us to be sad and worthless at the same time
Went to University with Vinnie Omari after he was in LizardSquad, he told me the UK police said he could either go to jail or study cybersecurity and work for them, so that's how he ended in Uni with me lol
Shit police, he should have been arrested regardless
@@roeital5504 Shit happens constantly with hackers, they either get time or a new job
@@roeital5504 why? this is pretty much like ding dong ditching, or egging an house, it's not like they scammed people out of money, it's pretty mild as far as cyber crime goes.
@@stefthorman8548hence why he’s going to university since he has the base skills that can be developed further
lol
I've watched a number of these today. Egos gets them every time.
I totally forgot about these guys! They're the reason why RS changed how death works and why everyone keeps their stuff now. Thanks for memories!
Yea I forgot about them too. The reason the death mechanic was changed was due to other ddosers since the guys in this vid only attacked RuneScape for a very short period.
I still remember them because of their interview with Reviewtechusa
It’s was the greatest Christmas may God we actually spent time together the best god damn Christmas ever
I forgot about them too. Because they're weren't that notorious.
@@Labyrinth6000 do you remember when and if the Review Tech video is still up?
This is one of those special cases called "losers with power".
Then why were they winning?
@@KickingAssDaily losers with power
@@ducksongfans Why are they losers, if they are winning?
@@KickingAssDaily because they mean to call them incels
@@MatthewT394 they arent
Mann we needed thattt i went out to the movies that night and the line in to see the interview was litttt got us all out of the house that night
These irl videos will blow you up keep posting then know I love watching them and alot of others will too
You might not be able to arrest a lizard, but you can arrest a guy claiming to be one.
Facts
so true
mark zuckerburg : 👀💦
@@Un0_ LMAO, I was about to say that.
Exactly. All they have to do is figure out who they are and they can bring them in.
Ah, yes, the Lizard Squad drama. I remember obsessively watching all this crap go down in real time, it was that entertaining. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
Same here
Yep. Lulzsec was pretty entertaining too
@@aliveandwellinisrael2507 Oh, dang, I'd almost completely forgotten about the Lulzsec chaos. That was what, 10 or 11 years ago now? Those guys pulled some wild shenanigans too, lol.
Lmao Lulzsec omg I remembered. wtf XD but I was in PoodleCorps so I only got the wind.
What you consider entertainment I consider rage inducing.
This is my new favourite channel!!
You deserve more subs bro
I remember when I was 12 receiving a brand new Xbox One on Christmas 2014 and trying to connect it. I was living with my grandma so when I saw the issues it was having trying to connect to the internet I assumed it was our old wifi having troubles, only for my older brother to Google it and find out that it was some wacko Lizard squad who caused the issue. My grandma also saw this on the news after since she was super into the news and whatnot, and it was overall just a really strange experience. I was quite upset that day of course, but in the end I just waited the next day and was fine. It's crazy to see how their story started and ended. What I'm shocked about the most is their complete lack of punishments. 3 months of prison and a 350k fine and 2 years on watch is literally nothing compared to the amount of information they breached and threats they made. Absolutely insane
they exposed flaws and exploits in the security system, government usually goes light on people like them for that stuff
thats probly because shortly after their sentance.... they got a job offer from the FBI... or the NSA
@@CrazyChiefXxX Maybe, that would depend on how good they actually are. By the sounds of it all they did was DDoS servers (the bomb threat was equally pathetic as anyone can do that), unless I've missed something they never actually 'hacked' anyone. DDoS'ing is weak, at best. They couldn't even DOX properly, which in my opinion makes them pretty pathetic. I have a lot of respect for people with true talent (as long as they don't use it to damage the reputation of good people/businesses/organisations) and those are the people that get drafted in by the FBI/CIA/NSA/MI6 and all the other 3 letter agencies.
@@CrazyChiefXxX assuming it was just ddosing, they definitely did not 💀
@@theonlygoodonehere2259 ddos attacks are nothing new
The tale of Lizard Squad really is scary since a couple of dudes in their basements were able to take down entire Networks.
And countrys
It’s just a ddos attack educate yourself
You act like DDOS attacks are something that can only be done with extreme resources. It’s very easy
@@707josh do it then
@@707josh I don’t mean ddosing your average discord server Dumbass I mean entire countries
Bro this was a great video! Love how you narrate.
The redlettermedia fail horn lol love your vids man keep up the good work
"Don't you not feel guilty that you've taken so much enjoyment of gaming away from more than 100 million people?"
"Do you not understand how sociopathy works?"
Like the tens of thousands of people who followed those jerks,they must have gotten a thrill from it too.
Saying that they are sociopaths is a bit ridiculous. There's people who do much worse that aren't sociopaths.
@@WeirdSmellyMan ridiculous…? These guys are literally the definition of sociopathy.
@artemis7084 so you think that because they hacked into some game services they could literally murder a child and feel nothing?
@@WeirdSmellyMan dont need to murder anyone to be a sociopath ; read up the definition.
and fyi ; DDOS is not hacking ; nor are fake bomb threats; calling them losers hackers is complimenting them ; they dont deserve that title.
Nothing quite says “my parents don’t love me” than trying to make other people miserable on Christmas
Literally the irl Grinch lol
@Young Philosopher Based from their mom's basement it is.
Naw people just like seeing others mad
skill issue
If a lack of gaming on Christmas makes you miserable, maybe you would be regardless.
Just subscribed !
Loving this docs maan 🙌🏽
It would awsome to see more
This was a partial self inflicted hack to test systems. They were free from the beginning, THAT is why they are so relaxed and appering on camera for interviews. They enjoyed the challenge. "All the people that said we would rot in prison don’t want to comprehend what we’ve been saying since the beginning, we have free passes" - Julius Kivimaki.
They basically werent held accountable at all. What a depressing ending.
You should see the weak ass sentences Finland gives out for BRUTAL murders.... They usually get pardoned by Helsinki Court of Appeals after 15 years!! What do you think they're gonna do with video game hackers?
Hhahaha
I kinda support them
@vdrek9900 that's great when you support the anti hackers
@@why_nate_whythat's why an NPC shouldn't have internet access
Feel like their punishment was super lenient. Cost literal million in damages across the world, yet only a handful of years between them?
Only 3 months? Yea, people get more than that for marajuna.
@@TheZombiesAreComing because these guys are smart and exposed an opening flaw in the security, meanwhile marijuana only does harm and kills brain cells
@@theonlygoodonehere2259
"come get me bro" isn't smart, it's hubris. Nothing about your argument is logical and is merely you simping for them.
@@TheZombiesAreComing what was the original comment
@@ninetyity3712
TheOnlyGoodOneHere
18 hours ago
@TheZombiesAreComing because these guys are smart and exposed an opening flaw in the security, meanwhile marijuana only does harm and kills brain cells
the roots of lizard squad started where they would sometimes anonymously arange ddos attacks on companies websites. a few years some of the organisers of the ddos attacks teamed up
4:45 Someone who launched DDoS attacks and thinks they’re a 1337 hacker, is like someone who doorbell ditches a house and thinks they’re a part of Ocean’s Eleven. That’s basically the impression of everyone working in Cyber Security
Agreed
like that oceans eleven reference great movie. And I always laugh at people like this, they think their so smart but when the feds get involved it all goes to shit
i was wonering on that comment on the reporter saying its not that big of a job can you give me more details want to know how up there asses were
@Kevin Agustin Santiago Jacobo
a dDos attack is super simple, all one has to do is generate “traffic” on a website or server system to the point where a system fails to be able to handle the traffic, this is done by sending encoded bits of information called “packets” back and forth across the ports (access points) for the system. It can be accomplished by nearly any random person with about 2 hrs google time and a prewritten dDos machine
@@kevinagustinsantiagojacobo698 There are many kinds DoS attacks, and I’m not sure which the Lizard Squad was using. To follow up on what Captain Mike said, there are a couple of analogies that could help explain it.
For example, one kind of attack could be similar to continuously calling someone’s phone so nobody else can get through; now imagine your phone company saying “hey you’re putting a burden on our network, so we’re gonna automatically drop every call you get for awhile.”
Another kind of attack could be like me ordering a bunch of Pizzas from different restaurants and giving them your address; it ends up taking you a lot longer to sort it out than it does for me to keep calling in the orders. This is an example of both Amplification and Reflection which is the “best” kind of DoS attack.
In both of those examples, the attacker doesn’t need any knowledge or creativity. Random teenagers could do it if they’re bored one day.
These "hackers" arent even worth pity. These dudes deserve being laughed at for life 💀💀💀
nah man they deserve a 5.56 to the stomach
@@cay7809 no cap, real shit
What about the billion dollars companies who had a weak security !
@@jaahiliintaafkaayaankagooy7570 Lizard Squad ain't going to fuck you bro
Fax these mfs got no life
This was the most insane thing that happened in the gaming community, it was during my christmas break in elementary school. Playstation n xbox servers were down n the only thing everyone knew was lizard squad. What a throwback.
I love how a big portion of people playing it live in Africa, southern America, and asia, which don't even celebrate Christmas, and the hacker still questions if they don't have anything better to do on "Christmas eve"
We de celebrate Christmas in anmost all of South America tho
Except a lot of places you listed do
"I'd be more worried if those people didn't have anything better to do than to play games on their consoles on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day."
- the guy who spent Christmas DDoSing gaming companies
lol my thoughts exactly, not that these people can grasp that kind of logic. Its clear just from looking at their faces in these interviews that they have some obvious mental issues.
@@jamiecf2698 Correct me if i understand your wrong, but basically what you are saying is, that every hacker have mental issues according to you?
@@herppderpp7458 haha what? thats not what i said at all. i was talking about the lizard squad specimens in the video
Managing to ddos large companies is ironically still more productive. Takes some work and learning and practice and could honestly be a real skill in life.
@@UdderlyMilky actually it requires downloading a program off the dark web and letting it run. Its really not complicated at all.
Damn what a blast from the past. Hard to believe this was 8 years ago. I remember going to machinimas site and seeing it was all messed up
exactly dude, 2014 feels like yesterday lmao
@@erickj3929 so true
I remember hopping on PS3 just to see the servers were down and wasn't very happy about it 😂 what a day to remember
NO WAYL THAT WAS 8 YEARS AGO
I remember Christmas 2014. I got a playstation 4 from my father (as much for him as me lol). We tried to set up our playstation account for hours. We never realized this is probably why we struggled so much. We sent the confirmation email for our account in a dozen times with no response. We assumed it was just a crowded server but this makes so much more sense. Absolute morons, all of them.
I also remember the attacks. I was a child who was shocked at their childishness.
Your videos are fantastic bro!
Wow I remember this so well but had no idea what was going on exactly at the time. This video was very well done!
@@legendarymoments8229 pp
This one checked all the boxes, great work
Glad you enjoyed it :)
@@PartyhatRS The boxes that make up a great video? Thorough; Researched; Factual. Idk how else to clarify that for you, im sorry! 😅
@@AshleyAcademy don’t forget humorous
@@Number.1Yanfei.Fan123 it's the comments that keep it going long after the show is over 👍
@@CrumbRS The way you pronounced MEGA ruined my kid’s Christmas bro.
_But that's a story for another day._
Catchy, signature sign-off to excellently told tales. Keep on.
I remember that day, me getting the xbox 360 on Christmas, pure joy. Then to be realise that the servers were down, because of some hackers called the Lizard Squad. 9 year old me at the time didn’t really know what happened and caused me and my dad to lose some excitement as he was struggling to try get it working for me, I wasn’t mad or angry at the time just upset,
I can imagine the lead hacker of Lizard Sqaud getting interrupted by his mom offering bagels at 9 am on Christmas morning
edit: stop taking this seriously it's a joke
lol
"COMING MOMMMMM"
So he has a mother that loves him? I mean, how is that a bad thing? Do you not have family that cares about you?
@@marishiten5944 I don't think you understand the joke, I'm making fun of the lead hacker because he probably still lives with his parents and doesn't have a job.
@@amigoRBLX why should he work on christmas?
the fact they called TheFinest a bunch of "kiddies" while their member on drama alert and on the news interview were obviously way younger than TheFinest's member is so funny
"skid" (stands for script kiddie) is an insult among hackers. Which insults their skills in hacking.
@@b0exi comment never said skids he said they was called kiddies . But yes I know lol love sitting in them boot discords while they try boot eachother offline while calling eachother skids 😭
@@exotikz7905 💀💀
I remember when this happened, and they ruined my gaming time back then i was so upset for days. i was hooked with black ops on Playstation. When i was a teenager, Im glad you uploaded this to know the true story. 👍
heck yeah crumb keep it up bro!!!!
“Like most awful things, it started with League of Legends” made me burst out in laughter lmao
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@@hoghuhaghu8506 Bru
@@hoghuhaghu8506 I agree with your statement
@@hoghuhaghu8506good point
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Hi Crumb. Just wanted to say that Bradley's file is publicly accessible through the Dutch court (including a lot of the chats he was having with the other members).
From what I've just read he has received 180 hours of community service and/or 2 months in prison
Both? Usually in europe u get either.. like x hrs service is x weeks in jail. Atleast that how it works in Nordic countries.
@@kungfreddie hmm I recall it was worded in quite a confusing way so maybe it was indeed either of the 2
@@Rerbun the judicial thinking in most eu countries is that if the sentence is under x time (2 yrs in sweden) then it is seen better for the society and the convicted if he can serve it by ankle monitor/community service/etc. But only if the convicted is not seen as likely to reoffend or is a flight risk. So to get community service at the end means he is not likely to reoffend or flee, and would therefore get the whole sentence as community service. I would guess...
@@kungfreddie I agree, that's very likely. I will edit my comment to clarify
Looking back at it, it was a blessing in disguise ...
Crazy to see your last two videos blow up. Deservedly so. Hope the OSRS content doesn't completely die, even if you move it to a second channel (would make sense at this point).
OSRS is dead for sure at this point. Felt like I had covered basically everything I wanted to there anyways, and it was time to iterate or die tbh
One of those Lizard squad members is now suspected of breaching Finnish Psychiatric company's Vastaamo database and blackmailing their clients about releasing their personal data online if they not pay ramsom. These actions eventually caused this Vastaamo company going for bankrupt.
They didnt hack Vastaamo, thats the real problem. That company had zero protection or safeguards and the data was easily accessible by anyone with a decent knowledge of the internet. The company was a total scam company run really badly. It was wrong what that one guy did (not lizard squad, one guy who is no longer a member) but it was bound to happen sooner or later when someone noticed the total lack of security. Both the hacker and company were at fault there. It is good they went bankrupt as they were a very immoral company. Nobodys data was ever actually released and it triggered a massive increase in security in medical systems across Europe, which was badly needed. So you could argue it was good overall i guess.
damn
They flew Julius back into Finland (from where-ever he was hiding) for this, and he finally got what he had coming for him. This was big enough crime.
these dudes ruined my christmas when i got my ps4 i remember having to wait 2 weeks to get online
Derrick forreal lmfao, Talk to George lately ?
Where’s George at
@@Dumpsack I'm glad I'm not the only one that caught that name and what it's from lmfao
George foreman
@@raven3946 YOURE GONNA LOVE MY GRILL
Very interesting video had no idea about this team I swear I remember Sony PlayStation being down for awhile one time and I was like what the hell's going on I'm assuming this must be it it's kind of interesting to find out why and how pretty good video man
I vividly remember when this happened. I had a PS3 modding team at that time and none of us were able to do anything online. We would just chat through Skype but our gaming time was cut short for a while, while on Christmas break from school. I was honestly pretty impressed, and it made me want to get more into hacking and modding. My modding team actually tried to look into it and see how they were doing this but we never really found out much. Really cool times, I must say.
@@ICONOCLAST I was a kid when this happened, my life wasn't ruined lmao. If all it takes to "ruin a kids life" is for gaming servers to go down for 9 days then maybe the kid should get some fresh air. Just sayin. Games aren't real life let's get that straight.
@@Teelur any form of hacking isn’t “cool.” Let’s get THAT straight, that’s my point here, you don’t gain shit from it
@@ICONOCLAST I guess we won't talk about all the things we know today from hackers getting the information for us. What about the time anonymous leaked a full list of names and addresses of known KKK members? Or the fact that someone knew how to stop/deterr Lizard Squad by HACKING them back, keeping your precious gaming servers up. Not all hacking is bad hacking. Ethical Hacking is a thing. Look it up.
@@Teelur of course ethical hacking is a thing, I’m going into cybersecurity so I know a thing or two lol.
@@ICONOCLAST Hope that works out for you man. Just keep an open mind. You of all people should know that in order to fight against hackers and their programs, you need to understand how they work, and then take counter measures. Which in turn kind of turns you into a hacker aswell. It's all about the knowledge. The tools are there it just depends on how you use them, for good or for bad.
Have a great day brother, and best of luck with your CyberSecurity course
How does this vid have over 3 mil views yet only 80k likes. I think this was on the level of Sunny's vids. Great work
dawg, i really want this to continue.
I remember how IRRITATED I was that christmas. I actually had completely forgotten about these saps until this showed up in my feed. Good video!
imagine playing games at christmas💀 get a life please, they did good job to make some people enjoy something special without playing video games
@@sergeiandreivich2720 Imagine telling others to get a life online. Sounds much worse than games to me. :)
@@sergeiandreivich2720 wow thats crazy how in 2014 they might not have been old enough to work a job and im sure that if there parents bought them a brand new console would want them to play it
@@sergeiandreivich2720 Imagine being the parent who bought your kid a PlayStation only for them to toss it aside and run off. Imagine not being a tech savvy parent and think you got your kid a BROKEN Christmas gift, if I were a parent I'd die inside. Like, yeah special family time, that's WHY they got it for you, using the gift you were given is a part of the Christmas experience, even if it's a video game, because it was still given to you. Maybe if you mean playing by yourself.
@@sergeiandreivich2720 u typing this from prison bro?
Aside from their DDoS attacks, the members of Lizard squad would DOXX random people who criticized them. If you look them up on google a news story talks about some of the SWATTING attacks they did and mention in particular a League of legends Twitch streamer that they harassed to the point she dropped out of college, stopped streaming, and had her life ruined. I work in the IT Center for the University that the woman streamer attended when one of the lizard squad members harassed her, DOXXED, and SWATTED her many time. They called into the call center trying to gain access to their account. The member of lizard squad was livestreaming the doxxing via a 3rd party streaming site. Was crazy man.
This should have been made more clear in the video tbh
They deserve a colombian necktie
What a video bro wow thank you
The fact that you started it with a perfectly true roast is great.
"Like most awful things, it all started with League of Legends." truer words have never been spoken
This has a nostalgic feeling to it. Thanks for making me feel young again crumb!
You still are young
@@Ryan-uh9le what ?
@@Zappy-ray777 you still are young
@@Ed_geins you still are young
@@Zappy-ray777 you still are young.
Just Found This Channel 2nd Video This Is Really Well Made and Entertaining
I was one of the Christmas victims, in 2014 I remember getting an Xbox one for Christmas & being really excited to play but I couldn’t bc servers were down. Couldn’t even play offline because the Xbox needed updating & required creating an account before starting up for the first time.
What amazes me is that, like these guys said, DDOS-ing major company's servers, and disabling hundreds of thousands of people's "new-gen" systems can be accomplished so easily, but so few, so anonymously... Not acquitting these few for their actions, but the idea that ALL these major companies should spend a LOT more resources protecting their assets should be obvious.
Holy shit, this brings back so many memories. As someone who has been very big into the gaming community and Twitter community, this was an insane time lol. The craziest thing is seeing things such as Machinima, Keemstar, etc... brings back so many memories lol
Christmas is ruined but its a good thing that I have the sponsor of todays video private internet access
Man I love the fact a group of hackers wanted to do something good and cancel another group for their toxic behavior
Cancel, eh?
Cancel culture vibes since they're pretty hypocritical
@@NoProblemoBob yea, I'd have to agree. But toxicity can sometimes cancel out other toxicity. Like a fire, the bigger hotter fire consumes the smaller fires oxygen and it dies out. That's how some firefighters put out some fires, because an electrical fire can't be extinguished with water.
pretty sure the other hacker group are no life gamers, so of course they're pissed.
the only lesson i learned from this entire story is to not be as dumb as them
not to be as lonely as them*
The dudes hacked multiple hardened networks. Dumb? Haha.
@@marishiten5944 that's the thing they weren't hardened networks at all and extremely easy to hack if you had a bit of money. The only thing stopping people before was the repercussions which turned out to not be so bad. Nowadays you can't do what they did
@@marishiten5944if he was smart he wouldnt of got caught so yes dumb
Then the video worked.
I remember this my cousin had just got laid off from work, and playing online and venting was what got both of us through that difficult patch. This was the most moronic thing to do in reality.
whomp whomp
this video was nostalgic for me, i remember following both Lizard Squad and Finest Squad. what a sequence of events
I like this direction of not only focusing on osrs anymore and even moving toward more real world happenings. Sure games were sort of in focus even here, but I think there are some pretty interesting cases surrounding manor exploits and even some of the really obscure ones often have very real stories behind them.
I’m almost getting darknet diaries vibes recently and I really like it!
Its been a while since i've truly been sucked into a video like this. The pacing, script, animations are amazing. Especially the pacing! Great Job.
Lizard Squad defacing Machinima is probably (accidentally) the nicest thing they ever did.
I would say knocking out north Korea internet was pretty nice
they have internet in north korea?
@@cooker0ratsOnly in certain areas
so much work just to ruin a holiday 😅
that’s fucking hilarious how are people so pissed off by this lmfao they should do it again
@@SmokeyDogGaming so funny I almost forgot to laugh
They tried to claim it was done to bring attention to rampant consumerism too as I recall! It really did a number on those of us who were working in customer service that day! It was horrid people kept calling in over and over again when there was nothing sony or microsoft could do about it!
Oh how I've missed you!!! This was so refreshing you just have no idea. Thank you thank you thank you for this. I am grinning from ear to ear.
I remember being 10 just getting bo2 for Christmas, so excited to play it, log on to my PlayStation and was in horror to find out there was no PlayStation network the whole day :( what a crazy time
Man, I didn't even know that happened because when I was 5,I got my first console,(It was a PS3 and today it still functions properly) but, my family couldn't buy an internet connection because we lived in a rural area, so while everyone was playing online multiplayer games, I was playing offline mode games like Minecraft or Need for Speed or Call of Duty campaigns, then when the LizardSquad attacks came in 2014 and everyone's Christmas Online Gaming was ruined, I was at home enjoying Need for Speed Hot Pursuit not knowing that the World was calling for blood against these hackers, to anyone who had their 2014 Christmas ruined by these hackers I'm sorry for you and wished I could of shared your pain with you.
I'm so glad to see your videos doing so well Crumb! I remember seeing a video a few years ago where you were going to take a break from CZcams, and I'm just happy to see that you ended up turning it into something even bigger! I wish you the best of luck in the future :)
“Like most awful things it started with league of legends” had me dying 😂
13:42 WHAT THE HECK VINNIE IS INVOLVED-
We have gone full circle.
This is the guy that blackmailed the WannaCry killswitch kid for Kronos (Bank Trojan)
Shi crazy
You know, I think I was bothered by this back in the day. Though I knew nothing about Lizard Squad and probably just accepted the downtime and spent time with Family. Thanks Lizard Squad for giving me valuable Family time!
I lived through this and your editing style made it so interesting even though i already knew it all. Subbed bro keep growing
Thank you King
Crazy that I missed this because I took a online gaming hiatus during that time due to financial circumstances. I only ever heard about it. Definitely a crazy story
@RealSweetKid Lol I'm actually on a financial gaming hiatus right now lol
gotta like these lizard squad guys honestly. i never heard of them before this really. but this video makes me like them lol.
i like the other hackers too lol. a hacker fight why not. NK offline lol ? nice tho cant complain there can we
We need someone similar back fr fr
I love to see how far you've come Crumb, this is amazing stuff. Keep going!
Always appreciate you king :)
You make these stories so much more interesting, Thanks for making such good content Crumb!
Will you ever make another OSRS video again after the new found success on theese other videos ? Either way I’ll always watch!
Btw , I thought you uploading on the 20th? I guess that sponsor is still holding out ? Much love man❤
I delayed the sponsor because still working on it, turned into a much bigger story. Really felt like I covered mostly everything I wanted to with osrs, and it was time to iterate or die, so most likely not. Would also be very hard to go back once I do a few more of these videos and my audience changes
@@CrumbRS I respect the honesty and the response as always , looking forward to the next vid. Have a great day Crumb !
@@CrumbRS do you have an eta on the next video? thanks for all the great content
@@seopig5382 early this month, aiming by the 10th, almost have it done :)
@@CrumbRS cant wait. any hints on the topic?
I remember this, I was really hungover & just wanted to chill playing TDM...
Your content is so good. I came here looking for info on OSRS as a former RuneScape player from 03-09. Between the Josh Pirrault documentary, those who support their family’s farming gold, and this one - I truly hope you can get more & more recognition & subscribers ❤
Figment needs HUGS
Man I missed these, They are so good. All the research you put into these plus the clips and articles. Top shelf content Crumb 👍🏼
Thanks king
Giga chad
crumb better be making another banger
I've been working non stop for 3 months on the next video, it's currently 40 minutes long and I expect to have it up before the months over :)
man this takes me back i was one of them keeping up with their twitter when i couldnt get on xbox to play cod hahah
you make these stories so much more interesting. crumb you rock
15:55 LMFAOO what did he expect, like , *did he forget they literally made BOMB THREATS*
If interrupting a couple of game services means ruining Christmas for a '100 million people', that truly speaks a lot on what a consumeristic society we've become. They were heroes
fr, who plays runescape on christmas, and who plays it enough on christmas that not having access to it means your christmas is ruined. Thats just sad.
@@horse2483right
The line, "Like all bad things it started with League of Legends" Was just Hilarious.