If you're trying to play a game on PSN today, you may be running into some issues. Despite routine maintenance set for tomorrow, over the weekend Sony's PSN service has been hit by a series of crippling attacks from a hacker/vandal collective known as 'Lizard Squad.'
The group also claims to have been working to sabotage Blizzard's servers, along with interrupting Riot Games' League of Legends and Grinding Gear Games' Path of Exile. But as of late, PSN appears to be their main target, at least judging by their quickly-growing Twitter feed.
'Sony, yet another large company, but they aren't spending the waves of cash they obtain on their customers' PSN service. End the greed,' they said a few hours ago on their page.
Sony's response on their own Twitter support channel is a seemingly never-ending string of auto-messages responding to individual users' complaints. The long and short of it is that they're working on the issue, yet have no timetable as to when the service will be restored. The hack was first reported by Shacknews, who reiterates that this has nothing to do with the planned maintenance for tomorrow.
Out of the supposed hits on League, Exile and Blizzard games, only Sony still seems to be having issues at the moment. The group seems focused on them in particular, at one point saying they've planted an 'ISIS' flag on Sony's servers, referencing the terrorist group that has massacred scores of civilians in Iraq.
PSN is no stranger to this sort of attack, as they suffered a large breach in 2011. That time, it was the internet's famed 'Anonymous' taking responsibility, and the end result was the exposure of thousands of names and passwords. In the end after a class-action lawsuit, Sony agreed to a $15M settlement.
I suppose the point being made with this new hack is that Sony still has not done enough to secure their online services, even after a colossal breach like the one in 2011. This is still an ongoing situation, but so far there is no information about the possible of exposure of customer information, only that the service itself is offline.
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