Sony Exec's Plane Diverted After Hacker Bomb Threat on Twitter

An American Airlines plane has been grounded with the president of Sony Online Entertainment on board after hackers claimed, via Twitter, that there were explosives in the cargo. The incident followed a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Playstation's servers on Sunday.

Two separate hacker groups claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack, which, according to Sony, inflicted an "artificially high" amount of traffic on the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network



Lizard Squad and Famed God took to social media, Twitter and YouTube, respectively, to claim credit for the hack on the entertainment company





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