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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vJediPosted:

Inq Good this happened.
All the PS fanboys got a bit too happy when XBL went down.

hard aye i agree with you to happy and then PSN Taken Down In Major DDoS Attack By LIZARD

Elim8Posted:

Those nerds need's to go outside and see the sun again.

stekiePosted:

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?

Mario350Posted:

it really sucks for the ppl who play ps4/3 all the pc xbox and nintendo fanboy's are laughing when its not even funny its just annoying imho they should of done it to nintendo instead since we all know they are more of a joke then sony is

RinPosted:

I like how people are blaming psn owners when it was mostly pc users getting the laugh.

The-ProfessorPosted:

That honestly really sucks.. these people need to get a life.

mrmod2014Posted:

I was just setting my ps4 the grey one I wonder why I could not get online this are f##king pass holes and Xbox just why Xbox I understand Nintendo but not psn and Xbox

XboxPosted:

well i guess the score is even. i hope psn stays down.

1989Posted:

Good this happened.
All the PS fanboys got a bit too happy when XBL went down.

2JZ-GTEPosted:

Watch Destiny go down tomorrow because of the new DLC launch, wouldnt surprise me


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