PSN Taken Down In Major DDoS Attack By Lizard Squad

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PlayStation Network went down throwing thousands of gamers offline and rendering many services unusable. Lizard Squad has, as usual, taken credit for the outage.

The attack is very real, too. You can see a visual representation of the DDOS attack live on websites such as Digital Attack Map. Traffic appears to originate from proxies in China which are slamming the North American PSN servers. There also appears to be an attack hitting Peru. It is presently unclear what this is affecting.

Over 1,400 Twitter users have already retweeted the post offering just a glimpse at how profound of an impact it has had. Not only are PS4 users affected, but so are those on PS3 and PS Vita.

Last weekend Lizard Squad took down not only Xbox Live, but impacted the arrival of World of Warcraft; Warlords of Draenor‘s first PvP season and raid dungeon. It accomplishes this through DDoS attacks, which essentially bombard servers that host online services with traffic to a point where they are incapable of handling connections from real users.



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erickcamacho24Posted:

this guys are jut having a blast!

AlexPosted:

Hollywood_Undead Playstation fanboys have nothing to say now...


How does one be a sony fanboy they got hacked every 6 months like clockwork.

MissPosted:

I think it'd be absolutely hilarious if they did this to shut up PSN fanboys for laughing when XBL went down.

XBL-ABPosted:

Playstation fanboys have nothing to say now...

AlexPosted:

-Corgi
Alexyy PCMR Reporting in, it's not too late you can still join the master race.


I guess you didn't read the part where it said they attacked World of Warcraft as well.

That and they took Steam down several days ago.


Wow? Do I look retarded? regardless steam don't centralize their login server making ddos's only affect that server thus making it win every time. :)

ZE_BLUEZPosted:

-GoldCoast-
Treyarched
GibbityTree
TheySuspendedMe PC MUSTARD RACE.
CAN'T TAKE US DOWN YO


LMAO that was a good one mane.


Until they decide to DDOS steam servers.

if they do then something bad is going to happen


They already have ddos steam... Last week the shut off steam taking a tone of users that were playing. So PC I'm sorry is master race but nothing is master protected from pro ddos people

GaryPosted:

-Corgi
Alexyy PCMR Reporting in, it's not too late you can still join the master race.


I guess you didn't read the part where it said they attacked World of Warcraft as well.

That and they took Steam down several days ago.


I guess you missed the part where real PC players don't play World of Warcraft.

-CorgiPosted:

Alexyy PCMR Reporting in, it's not too late you can still join the master race.


I guess you didn't read the part where it said they attacked World of Warcraft as well.

That and they took Steam down several days ago.

AlexPosted:

Int
Alexyy PCMR Reporting in, it's not too late you can still join the master race.


haha made my day man, what games do you play!


Doesn't matter what I play because it's running at 60+ FPS at 1080p.

Over and out.

IntPosted:

Alexyy PCMR Reporting in, it's not too late you can still join the master race.


haha made my day man, what games do you play!


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