PSN and Xbox Live taken down on Christmas Day

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Thousands of people reported Christmas Day problems on the Xbox Live and Playstation gaming networks, as a band of hackers took gleeful credit.

The networks, which allow users of the popular consoles to play the video games with a wider online community, first crashed on Wednesday evening and the problems persisted into Christmas Day, enraging many users — but especially those powering-up new machines from Santa Claus.

A hacker group called "Lizard Squad" claimed responsibility, saying on Twitter that it toppled both networks with so-called distributed denial of service attacks. The tactic involves overwhelming Sony and Microsoft's servers with unexpected — and bogus — user traffic.

"Jingle bells jingle bells xbox got ran," the group wrote on Twitter Thursday, adding a similar line about Sony. "oh my fun it is to troll of you morons ... hey!"

Xbox and Playstation responded Thursday saying they were working on the problems and investigating.

"Having a tough time signing in?" read a service alert on the Xbox support page. "Don't worry! We're working to fix this right away!"

"We are aware that some users are reporting issues accessing PSN this morning," read a Tweet from the official Playstation support account on Thursday. "Thanks for your patience as we investigate."

Playstation is owned by Sony, the same company that released "The Interview" on Thursday. The movie, about a fictional attempt to kill North Korean Leader Kim Jong un, sparked controversy after hackers — with ties to North Korea, according to the FBI — broke into the company's servers and released a trove of information.

Xbox is owned by Microsoft, one of the companies which agreed the stream the film despite threats of a 9/11-style attack by the original hackers. So far there are no indications that the two hacks are related.

Source: NBC News



I guess this solves my issue of wondering why I couldn't connect to PSN today. If it really was Lizard squad behind the hacking, then I'm fucking sick of them doing this shit.

Assholes.

I was going to get some games from PSN because of the flash sale. UGH!

They'll probably extend the sales and whatnot.

Well good thing I don't play video games online.

They stopped... for $99 worth of online storage (500GB). Apparently, theFinest posted all of lizardsqaud peronsal info on their site.

The member '2Sugoi2Die' has done the following action : Turn the Wheel of Fate

'Shigdig' :

Kids just don't know when to quit.

Update: PSN still down for maintenance, right now. Xbox Live back up and running.

Dammit, Doctor Doom!

PSN back up.

Xbox Live back down, for me at least.
Fucking hacking kiddie faggots.

Never mind, it's not up. I thought it was when I logged in for like a second.

Sawed-Off_Orc wrote:

Xbox Live back down, for me at least.
Fucking hacking kiddie faggots.

Pretty much. If it was just DDoS, I don't see why it's down so long though.

http://anonhq.com/anonymous-declares-war-lizard-squad/

DaTeckno wrote:

http://anonhq.com/anonymous-declares-war-lizard-squad/

Lol, Anonymous isn't much better. Not about to complain if they all take each other out though.

PSN came back online earlier this morning. However, the status on the PSN website has since been changed back to the OFFLINE status. Hopefully, PSN comes back for good later today.