Since late last night , it looks like a bunch of hackers have been assail the PlayStation internet and Xbox Live on-line gaming service . Merry Christmas 2014 , everyone !
ThePSN status pageis presently listing its service as online , although the official Twitter documentation page acknowledge that some user “ may be give birth issues logging in ” . The Xbox Live page , on the other hand , says that the logon service is currently unavailable . Or , in dewy-eyed terms , if you desire to apply the net capabilities of your Xbox mighty now , you ’re take a shit out of luck .
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The ‘ Lizard Squad ‘ hacking mathematical group is currently conduct responsibility , claiming that they downed both service , and wo n’t stop until they get 10,000 retweets on one of their inane ramblings . The declared method of hacking is Old Faithful — a distribute Denial of Service , which involves flooding a meshwork ( or , normally , some composition of decisive infrastructure ) with more dealings than it can handle . In this compositor’s case , it looks like the logon systems are the weak point , since both PSN and Xbox Live are reporting that users are have difficulty sign in .
Lizard Squad ’s credibility is raise by the fact that they ’ve beenteasing their plansto bring down PSN and Xbox Live since early December . They ’re also the same mathematical group thatused a bomb panic to hive off a planer carrying Sony Online ’s presidentback in August .
Whether they ’re actually responsible for the attack , or if it ’s just a spotty teenager claiming responsibility is a little hard to do work out . Either mode , both Sony and Microsoft have just said that they ’re “ working heavily ” to doctor the problems , and normal gaming service should be resumed shortly .
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