Many people over holidays enjoy participating with their family in traditions. A traditions that I share with my family is waiting for everyone to wake up before rushing downstairs on Christmas morning. An event that is sadly seeming like it will become a tradition is the "hacking" of gaming servers on Christmas day.
Children wake up Christmas morning, rush downstairs, wildly open up their present with their parents watching. He or she opens a present to find that they got the game they ask for to play with their friends. They rush to the console, pop in the disk, and tries to message their friend to realize that the servers are down. If you haven't heard before, in the past few years, squads of rouge programmers have came together to bring down big gaming servers such as xbox live, playstation network, and most recently, steam. This practice angers many gamers wanting to play or download their new game, but are unable to. They go on massive rants on forums and social media complaining on how someone could do such a terrible thing, and why are companies unable to deal with the hackers?
From what I'm able to put together, there are a few reasons behind why someone would do such a thing. After this event happened in 2014, hackers from the group that claimed the responsibility, Lizard Squad, were interviewed by media. Most of these interviews included rude language towards Microsoft and Sony. They claim that Microsoft and Sony are corrupted companies that overcharge and spend little resources on the protection of their servers to prevent attacks like they preformed. While they claim they are just trying to spread this message, I sense they're after something else, attention.
To me, their message would be just as received if they attacked anytime else. Attacking on Christmas means unless the companies bring in more employees on Christmas day, the servers are at the mercy of the hacker group.
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