FBI confirms: Lizard Squad under investigation for PSN, Xbox Live attacks

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has started investigating Lizard Squad, the online group that took credit for knocking PlayStation Network and Xbox Live offline. On Christmas, Lizard Squad allegedly assaulted Sony’s and Microsoft’s servers with a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack, which overwhelms a target with junk data that most servers don’t know how to handle. The result was that gamers on PlayStation and Xbox systems were without the ability to play many games for extended periods of time.

“The FBI is investigating the matter,” a spokesperson for the bureau told GamesBeat. (PS4, Xbox One)