Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Dec 25, 2014 14:17:47 GMT -6
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UPDATE: 9:18 DEC. 25 After recovering from about a six-hour or so outage last night, the PlayStation Network is back down again this morning, it appears. And the hacker collective claiming credit for the outage said it also has taken down rival Xbox Live network as well, though that couldn’t be verified.
Complaints logged at one system-monitoring company, DownDetector.com, show another big spike of problems on PSN, the online network, this morning. Attempts to access the network and the PlayStation Store directly also failed.
Sony’s PlayStation Twitter feed posted at 6:51 AM (PT) that, “We’re aware that some users are having issues logging into PSN – engineers are investigating.”
Xbox Live, the online network for videogame archrival Microsoft, was spawning far fewer reports on DownDetector this morning after its own outage last night, but Lizard Squad, the anonymous hacker or group of hackers that claimed responsibility for the outages in posts on Twitter, said it had pulled down the Xbox network as well. DownDetector said problems spiked again this morning beginning at 10:47 AM ET.
The Xbox support Twitter feed was responding busily to lots of support issues but did not reflect an outage there.
PREVIOUS: 7:46 PM DEC. 24 The Playstation Network was down beginning in late afternoon, as attempts to access the site returned error messages that the network was down. A check of Internet monitoring sites showed thousands of complaints. (This is a graphic from downdetector.com).
The hackers who attacked Playstation parent Sony Pictures Entertainment last month had promised a “Christmas gift” if the company proceeded with the release of movie The Interview, which has been made available online ahead of a limited theatrical release, which starts tomorrow. PSN’s latest troubles may be related to the SPE hack. Business Insider was reporting that Microsoft’ Xbox Live network, which is selling/renting The Interview on demand, was also down. An anonymous hacker group called Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for the outages in posts on Twitter. Lizard Squad also claimed credit for distributed denial-of-service attacks on the Playstation Network in August and again in November.
UPDATE: 9:18 DEC. 25 After recovering from about a six-hour or so outage last night, the PlayStation Network is back down again this morning, it appears. And the hacker collective claiming credit for the outage said it also has taken down rival Xbox Live network as well, though that couldn’t be verified.
Complaints logged at one system-monitoring company, DownDetector.com, show another big spike of problems on PSN, the online network, this morning. Attempts to access the network and the PlayStation Store directly also failed.
Sony’s PlayStation Twitter feed posted at 6:51 AM (PT) that, “We’re aware that some users are having issues logging into PSN – engineers are investigating.”
Xbox Live, the online network for videogame archrival Microsoft, was spawning far fewer reports on DownDetector this morning after its own outage last night, but Lizard Squad, the anonymous hacker or group of hackers that claimed responsibility for the outages in posts on Twitter, said it had pulled down the Xbox network as well. DownDetector said problems spiked again this morning beginning at 10:47 AM ET.
The Xbox support Twitter feed was responding busily to lots of support issues but did not reflect an outage there.
PREVIOUS: 7:46 PM DEC. 24 The Playstation Network was down beginning in late afternoon, as attempts to access the site returned error messages that the network was down. A check of Internet monitoring sites showed thousands of complaints. (This is a graphic from downdetector.com).
The hackers who attacked Playstation parent Sony Pictures Entertainment last month had promised a “Christmas gift” if the company proceeded with the release of movie The Interview, which has been made available online ahead of a limited theatrical release, which starts tomorrow. PSN’s latest troubles may be related to the SPE hack. Business Insider was reporting that Microsoft’ Xbox Live network, which is selling/renting The Interview on demand, was also down. An anonymous hacker group called Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for the outages in posts on Twitter. Lizard Squad also claimed credit for distributed denial-of-service attacks on the Playstation Network in August and again in November.