ISIS-linked bomb threat against Sony executive diverts San Diego-bound plane

[Liberty Belle]

Source: East County Magazine


Group ties take-down of Sony game network to U.S. bombing in Iraq


August 24, 2014 (San Diego)—American Airlines diverted its flight 362 from Dallas to San Diego, landing in Phoenix after a group claiming ties to the terrorist group ISIS tweeted a threat stating explosives were on board.

The tweet from the group calling itself Lizard Squad referenced Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley, who was on board. Earlier today, Lizard Squad hackers reportedly took down Sony Playstation’s network after tweeting that the group had planted the ISIS flag on Sony’s servers.

The tweet was sent with the hashtag #ISIS #jihad.

The hackers also posted a tweet to Smedley’s Twitter account displaying video of the World Trade towers being hit by planes during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York with the hashtag #PrayForFlight362.

Read more: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/isis-linked-bomb-threat-against-sony-executive-diverts-san-diego-bound-plane

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Disturbing to see this stuff happening so close to home.

[SoapBox]

1. And now even more crazies will start their copy-cat games.

...while Pukes and Baggers try to shutdown the ACA and impeach the President.

[Liberty Belle]

2. Let's hope the FBI can find and arrest these nuts;

federal penalties for threatening an aircraft are steep enough to land them behind bars for a long while.

[flamingdem]

3. The Lizard Squad also claimed to have put an Isis flag on the Vatican site

which is currently down. They don't have proof of that on twitter however

[uppityperson]

4. here is alink to another article

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/08/24/sony-online-entertainment-presidents-flight-diverted-by-psn-hackers-bomb-threat/

[davepc]

5. Just a bunch of 4-chan script kiddies

Actual ISIS would cut these guys heads off.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

8. Agreed. I think they were just trying to be "cool" or some stupid shit.

The group DDOSed the Playstation Network, XBox Live, Steam, NCSoft's servers (Wildstar and Guild Wars 2) Battle.net, and EVE Online in the past four days.

Now that they tweeted a bomb threat, the FBI is seriously looking into it.

[hifiguy]

12. The likelihood of your comment being true

is probably in the 99%+ range.

[blackspade]

6. And so it begins...

Now ISIS is the go to terrorist boogeyman for the 1%.
The Al Quada fear wore off.

[treestar]

7. Why did they believe that?

After all those security measures, they still thought this a possibility?

[elias49]

9. Time for one of these...I'm scared!!

[Javaman]

10. ISIS is just pissed sony stopped making the walkman.

isn't this just another example of our security theater?

[PersonNumber503602]

11. That twitter account sounds more like a bored kid than anything else