Sony’s Playstation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Lie were on Christmas day, rendering a lot of games unplayable and useless. The damage was a complicated distributed denial of service attack. A member of the hacker group Lizard Squad, which claimed credit for the attack has now been arrested by UK police, according to multiple reports.
Daily Dot reports that the man, 22-year-old Vinnie Omari, was arrested Monday after police raided his home. Omari sent the Daily Dot a photo of the search warrant, claiming the police took his Xbox One, phones, laptops, USB sticks and other equipment.
Thames Valley Police posted a report Wednesday, confirming that a 22-year-old man from Twickenham, England, was arrested “on suspicion of fraud by false representation and Computer Misuse Act offences.”
The report says the arrest was made Tuesday, however, and is related to an investigation of PayPal fraud, which took place between 2013 and August 2014. The attacks on Sony PSN and Xbox Live are not mentioned.
Lizard Squad itself posted on Twitter that another member, known by the pseudonym Ryan, has been arrested by the FBI after he landed at the Dallas Fort Worth airport. According to Lizard Squad, Ryan is a Finnish citizen.
