This weekend, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network players everywhere became the victims of a surprise attack, launched by the same technological terrorists who had allegedly targeted Sony's databases over the holiday season. Additionally, the Tor Project was also hit by the hackers known as the Lizard Squad.

The hackers brought down Tor, a peer-to-peer network that keeps users anonymous from state surveillance. The Tor Project, a non-profit organization, released that the hackers attempted to flood the service with fake servers.

In a statement on Friday, the Tor Project head said, "The attackers have signed up many new relays in hopes of becoming a large fraction of the network... We are working now to remove these relays from the network before they become a threat, and we don't expect any anonymity or performance effects based on what we've seen so far."

As it stands, the Lizard Squad is the primary suspect for the gaming network hacks. They have claimed responsibility for previous attacks on online gaming services, and the group has stated that their next target would be Tor. On the day of the attack on the Tor network, 3,000 servers named "Lizard NSA" appeared.

In one tweet, the hacker group announced, "Only hackers, miscreants and pedophiles use Tor."

Although the attack was initially deemed dangerous, the Tor Project experts believe that the strike has not done any real damage. One expert, Runa Sandvik, is a security researcher who used to work at the Tor Project. She examined the hacking and found that the service would only have been at significant risk if the hackers were using higher bandwidth relays. With the low bandwidth servers, the Tor Project will be just fine.

On that note, the Tor Project has taken steps to remove all false nodes from its network since the attack.