Seriously; why can't they hack Great Lakes Student Loans Services and slash my $100,000+ loan repayment down to $100?

Except they didn't hack anything. All these kids did was get 4000 zombies to crowd inside the art gallery and outside the door so that actual patron can't get in. They didn't break any secruity. What they are saying is more like haha, you should have gotten a warehouse to hold us stupids instead of a small gallery…

because they can't attack anything with actual security. Their statements about how they could completely prevent these attacks by buying more bandwidth and specific equipment goes to show you they don't even understand what they are doing when they are attacking. They literally think they are more knowledgeable…

my bullshitometer is going nuts after reading this (the article)

I think we all know the answer is because they are terrible people. I know that some people, especially when they are teens, think it's funny to piss lots of people off. It's not. They're just making the world a little worse.

You know what else would stop attacks like this? People not being dicks. Or said dicks finding something else better to do with their time.

This is like someone breaking into an art gallery and then, when ordinary people can't go to the gallery for 2 months because it's being repaired, claiming they just did it "to show that the owners should invest in some better security".

For the love of god. stop calling them hackers. call them Impudent Children or something

I can't wait to see the pictures of the police dragging those teens out of their mom's house and into a cop car.

Yes! I've had to work helpdesk on holidays... the worst part is a lot of customers can be real jerks, as if the customer support caused the issue. They're just there to help! Give 'em a break. Hopefully it's not too painful for the reps.

Set the parental controls when you're drunk and forget the password :)

Then stop paying your online subscription?

Let's see mom is dead, Dad is 1200 miles away, got the day off work, how about F U

Some of us don't have family to be with on Xmas. Might as well spend it playing.

Was going to turn on Netflix to play Christmas movies. Can't do that if I'm not signed into PSN. You dick.

Thanks to all the people trying to fix this so that we can have a happy holiday, and thank you Kotaku for being active on Christmas to still bring us our video game news

Screw that!! This has been happening at least once every two months since both consoles launched!! I say Microsoft and Sony should just give us all a free year of xbox live and ps+!

How about the people that have to go and fix this on christmas day. This attack effected more than just players but the people who have to fix this shit because of script kiddies.

Not everyone has a big happy family and sometimes the people you meet online and spend some much time with even if its just in a vitrual world and youve never seen them face to face you consider as your family

A big "THANK YOU!" to all the hard working people at Sony and MS (and anywhere else) who have to sort this nonsense out on Christmas.