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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BruPosted:

DPM I would hardly call it major... It was down for around 2 hours.


Some people think they were down for ages but it was PSN going down for maintenance.

DPMPosted:

I would hardly call it major... It was down for around 2 hours.

DeluxeHazardPosted:

Another attack that has no motive by the no-life group known as LizardSquad. It's pathetic.

970Posted:

Glad I have been too busy lately to even use my ps4

TomPosted:

They're pretty good at this stuff.

21Posted:

I never even noticed this, lol, just shows how much I "use" my PS4. I remember when PS3 was taken down a few years ago around xmas time, ah the memories.

OverlapPosted:

These people are real annoying.
The thing is, all they want is attention.. and that's what they're getting.

NukaPosted:

Hopefully these guys get caught soon, don't even want to know what happens on Christmas..

NukaPosted:

Knih
stekie Love how people are saying '' that's the playstation for you''when there virtually nothing you can do against DDoS attacks. Btw did xbox not get hit offline over the weekend also?


It is typical Sony.

Remember when they went down for basically a whole month in what, 2010ish? Haha. Sony is easy to hit hence most people attack Sony. They have no defense.

As of the " xbox got hit. " Yeah, they did, for about 2 hours at like 3am. It did nothing. Sony is just a weak company that only cares about profit and not security. That's why Lizard are attacking them.

Sony is EASY


Any company to hit is easy. These guys aren't professional hackers or anything, they're just overloading the servers, causing them to crash. There's no security breach, it's just that, overloading the servers.

gtapro151Posted:

Evo8 So Xbox goes down and all the comments are defending Xbox. PSN goes down and everyone talks bad about Sony. So much stupid hate on Sony, that makes no sense at all, and I'm an Xbox person.


Exactly it can happen to anyone


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