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Instagram, Facebook, Messenger went offline for a brief period on Monday, affecting millions of users in select regions. Heres what happened.

2014 Sucked For Video Games Share Image: Assassins Creed Unity If most of the last decade was relatively positive for video games, then 2014 was the brown note. It was the year Irrational Games, the makers of BioShock, closed down. EA shut down servers for more than 50 games. A ton of long awaited games launched in incredibly buggy, sometimes outright broken states. Remember the launch of Destiny, playing the biggest of AAA shooters only to discover all the game’s lore through a mobile app...

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Are any names of active members out there? are they all north koreans? do they outsource or hire chinese or hire europeans? hire middle easterners hire americans for all, for the possibility of getting the best hackers out there? >> yeah unit 121 has outsourced a lot of their work. the hack on sony which is generally considered to be a unit 121 venture. essentially worked lizard squad, guardians of peace and maybe even disgruntled sony employees. primarily its staff is north korea. theres about ...

As well as the x-box game consoles. so in that situation, it was a group calling itself or identifying itself as lizard squad. >> yeah. >> it seems they now also have their hacking capabilities for hire they have a kit that you can almost buy to hack. >> its crazy, right? >> is that legal? >> its certainly not. >> not, right. and i think what were seeing now is you know the internet in general is essentially aneeds to be protected and defended whether its a company like sony or servers that rela...

$15 million in online sales and rentals alone. as this unfolded, gaming experts were knocked out of service over the holidays by a group calling itself the lizard squad. they claimed to take down the network earlier in december as well. for more on all of this, the senior writer and tech expert joining us very much. my apologies. sam, will this roll out change the movie business, the fact that it was released online? could it change the dynamic and the relationship between theaters and productio...

The revenue split is 70-30. when you consider the studio originally expected to make 20 million before the hack attack 18 million, its not bad. it challenged the existing distribution model breaking the monopoly of the big theater chains. so aside from the scandal, that could be the biggest takeaway of the entire episode. >> sony got some other good news. the playstation network is back up and running. tell us about that. >> they got hacked on christmas morning, a group calling itself the lizard...

Koreans after all. now claiming it was most likely russians who waged digital war against the studio. they looked at the writing samples of guardians of peace say it matched the russian language. the firm says it is unlikely the country was involved. even after the major hack controversial film "the interview has success. making 60 million on-line becoming sonys number one on-line movie of all times. >> play station is back up and running after hackers took down the gaming network. >> sony is an...

And running again after hackers forced millions of gamers offline. and now, one of those accused of being behind the cyber attack is coming forward. live in los angeles with more on that. william? >> reporter: john, the fbi is investigating reportedly a finnish teenager who says his group hacked sony play station because he said facetiously, he wanted kids to spend more time with their families and to prove a point. sony and microsoft made enough money and they should spend more of it on signer ...

Breath. he is 90 years old and suffers form a form of parkinsons disease, which allow us him to get around in a wheelchair. sony announcing some positive news about the movie the interview causing a lot of controversy, but its turns out its a good thing for sony. the film brought in $15 million during its first four days. the film was released in -- the film was renteded or purchased online 2 million times. sony was forced to offer the movie digitally when theaters refuse ed to refused to ---t...