After Sonys PlayStation Network (PSN) intermittently went down yesterday, reports claim that the hacking group Lizard Squad might be behind the outage.
Disgruntled online PSN gamers took to social media, complaining they were unable to go online with their PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 3 consoles, which prevented them from playing multiplayer games such as Destiny and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Other issues also surfaced when trying to connect single-player games, including Bloodborne, to third-party servers.
Sony confirmed that the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Vue, PlayStation Now, and all social features were inactive. You may be experiencing issues related to signing in or creating an account on PlayStation Network, the company posted on its website, in response to a barrage of nervous questions from customers.
The bad news is that Lizard Squad is back as it claimed it was responsible for the recent PSN outage at more or less the same time people started complaining about the network problems. The group also tweeted that it was launching an attack on PSN servers moments before DownDetector realized hundreds of gamers were complaining about it. The group even provoked the FBI by saying none of its members had been indicted, though another report indicated that a few were charged.
Before Christmas last year, PSN went down for nearly five days amid an outage that limited Sony services to offline and rendered thousands of brand new consoles useless for gamers all over the world. Lizard Squad was held responsible for the massive DDoS attack and the group admitted its motivation to carry out the attack with the statement: Some lizards just want to watch the world burn. The attack also wiped out Microsoft Corporation Inc.s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox Live for around 24 hours.
However, just because the cyber rebels have claimed they made the attack doesnt necessarily mean they did it. There is a possibility that someone else was controlling the Twitter account and pretending to be the Lizard Squad. An unscheduled maintenance could be another reason for PSN servers to go down, which has happened in the past.
VentureBeat asked the Japanese company about what caused the problem, but Sony Corp (ADR) (NYSE:SNE) has not said anything on the issue yet.
Source: http://www.bidnessetc.com/42949-sony-playstation-network-down-lizard-squad-claims-credit/
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