How to go too far.

Early yesterday, a group of hackers known as Lizard Squad has taken down the Playstation Network and Blizzard's Battle.Net servers(Along with various others).  This is what Shack News had to say

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Several gaming servers have been at the receiving end of DDoS attacks over the past several hours. Blizzard's Battle.net servers, Riot's League of Legends, Grinding Gear Games' Path of Exile, and PlayStation Network are among those under attack by a group of hackers calling themselves Lizard Squad.

Several tweets have gone up throughout Saturday evening, in which Lizard Squad has taken responsibility for the attacks. The group started with Blizzard's servers that include Hearthstone, Diablo 3, World of Warcraft and others. The group quickly spread to League of Legends and Path of Exile before deciding to spread their terror to PlayStation Network. The latter's outage is not related to the scheduled maintenance set to begin Monday morning.

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A harmless little DDOS attack, nothing to worry about except no way to play your favorite games online, right?  Then just recently, it started to get worse.

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American Airlines has diverted a flight carrying the president of Sony Online Entertainment following what may have been a bomb threat by a group of alleged hackers—the same group that has claimed responsibility for a series of outages across the PlayStation Network and other gaming services this weekend.

This afternoon at around 1:30pm Eastern, the group Lizard Squad tweeted at American Airlines to say that a flight carrying John Smedley, president of SOE, the developer behind EverQuest Next among other games, had "explosives on-board."

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 Wait a minute.  What did Jason Schrier of Kotaku say?  And this about the Lizard Squad?

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At around 3:00pm Eastern, Smedley tweeted that American Airlines had changed his flight's destination.

"Something about security and our cargo," Smedley added.

American Airlines did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but their website's flight tracker confirms that the airline diverted flight #362 this afternoon. Representatives for SOE also did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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And thus my faith in humanity just dropped.

Folks, there is nothing funny about this incident what-so-ever.  It doesn't matter what problems the company has, pulling something like this off is going too far.  I urge gamers who ether like or hate Sony to condemn this kind of incident.  There is no justification in this kind of Twitter Pranks.

Works Cited:
Shack News
Kotaku