Lizard Squad: Xbox live USA “limited” for Xbox 360 users

Xbox live currently “limited” for Xbox 360 users, according to the Xbox Live service status page. And one hacker group is taking credit on Twitter.

The service outage might be the result of a cyberattack by notorious hacking group "Lizard Squad," which promised this would happen Dec, 07, 2014.

The current outage is affecting core services and a few select apps for gamers that use the Xbox 360, including IGN, Maxim, and MLG.TV.

The service has only been down for about 2 hour, as of this writing.

“Lizard Squad,” which has a history of attacking popular video game services, tweeted the following this morning:

Lizard Squad @FUCKCRUCIFIX

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gonna ddos Santa Claus' sleigh tonight

1:07 PM - 24 Dec 2014

And this is what Lizard Squad tweeted around the time of the outage:

Lizard Squad @FUCKCRUCIFIX

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Xbox #offline

8:26 PM - 24 Dec 2014

Lizard Squad @FUCKCRUCIFIX

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Jingle bells jingle bells Xbox got smacked, oh my fun it is to ddos in my moms basement .... heyy!

9:04 PM - 24 Dec 2014

“Lizard Squad” saying it would take down the PlayStation and Xbox Live networks over Christmas. But thanks to the efforts from another hacker gang called “The Finest Squad,” many members of Lizard Squad were exposed online, and it also learned that Lizard was taking the big game networks using DDoS attacks — basically, downing servers by sending a flood of web traffic to a single network. 

We've reached out to Microsoft's Xbox Live support team and we'll update this story when we learn more, and when the service comes back online.