Sony’s Playstation Network and Microsoft’s XBox Live experienced interruptions throughout Christmas Day. Guess who’s taking the credit?
Hackers of course. Specifically, a group called the “Lizard Squad.”
Reports USA Today:
Online game networks Xbox Live and PlayStation Network have been offline much of Christmas Day in an apparent DDos (distributed denial of service) attack.
Taking credit for the takedown: a group called Lizard Squad, which previously claimed credit for August attacks on the PlayStation Network and online games World of Warcraft and League of Legends.
The network status Web pages for Xbox Live and PSN both list the networks as offline.
Being that video games are popular Christmas presents, this is terrible timing. And then there’s the question about Sony. They can’t stop getting hacked ever since that fallout from The Interview.
Skeptics are saying that the cyber attacks are an inside job. Either way, hackers are really closing out 2014 with a bang.
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