A founding member of Lizard Squad, a group of cyber-attackers that took credit for taking down the PlayStation Network in 2014, has plead guilty to cyber-crimes.<\/p>\n
As reported by the Chicago Tribune<\/a>, Zachary Buchta\u00a0confessed\u00a0to being one of the group’s founding members during his guilty plea, where he admitted to one count of conspiracy to commit damage to protected computers.\u00a0<\/p>\n The charge can often carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, but prosecutors are recommending a sentence of 2.5 years if Buchta co-operates with a planned investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lizard Squad rose to prominence after disrupting\u00a0the PlayStation Network<\/a>\u00a0with a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack in August 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n The group also managed to get a plane carrying then Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley diverted to a different location by tweeting a bomb threat at American Airlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lizard Squad continued to hound Smedley after his move to H1Z1<\/em> developer Daybreak, and took\u00a0responsibility for multiple DDOS attacks<\/a> against the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n