Lizard Squad

John Smedley, the former Sony executive whose plane was landed after a bomb threat last August, took to Reddit last night to explain why he's disappointed with the loose sentencing that his plane's alleged caller has been given. "I normally don't weigh in on subjects relating to me personally, but I will this time," he began. "I'm extremely angry that the Finnish justice system chose to let Julius Kivimaki off with a two-year suspended sentence. This guy is the worst kind of bad news. He's been involved for years in every kind of terrible thing you can imagine – including carding, hacking, and swatting people all over the world. He's also participated in a major way in DDoS attacks that caused a lot of grief for gamers and a lot of economic damage to the companies that make and run games."

He went on to explain to readers how Kivimaki has impacted him personally. "He was the guy that brought down my flight with a bomb threat. I've heard the entire recording where he convinced an airline customer service agent that there was a bomb on the plane. He's also, in conjunction with others, sent me pictures of my father's grave with nasty stuff on it. I've had my entire credit history put out on the Internet including my social security number and my family's info. We've had multiple social networks and other things hacked, and had my family members called. I've also been swatted multiple times and had over 50 false credit applications submitted in my name, and had to deal with the ramifications of what happens to your credit when this kind of thing happens. It's not good. And to top it all off, they decided to submit false tax returns."

He then went on to say that he hopes Kivimaki eventually faces jail time, contrary to the sentence that the hacker received on Wednesday. "So, to put this bluntly: I want this kid in jail for a long time. You shouldn't be able to do crap like this without any hint of a consequence. I plan on doing everything in my power to see him get what's coming to him in court – one way or another. What he just got convicted of were over 50,000 separate incidents of hacking and other nastiness. This has nothing to do with the downing of the plane, or the DDoS stuff he did, or the things he did to me (not just me, by the way – he did this to a lot of other people, too). Those cases are still pending, but they have him dead to rights."

Before his aforementioned Reddit post, Smedley tweeted a number of warnings to Kivimaki, calling him a "sociopath" and "dirtbag", and saying that the hacker's parents needed to be held accountable. Lizard Squad has responded by overloading the servers to all of Daybreak's games, rendering them unplayable for many. The issue is ongoing, but we'll be sure to update you as the story progresses. Here's hoping for a clean resolution.

[source reddit.com, via twitter.com, twitter.com]