Originally published on http://games.slashdot.org/story/14/12/26/0357246/why-lizard-squad-took-down-psn-and-xbox-live-on-christmas-day DroidJason1 writes Early Christmas morning, hacker group Lizard Squad took credit for taking down PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for hours. This affected those who had received new Xbox One or PS4 consoles, preventing them from playing online.