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Battle.net and PSN taken down by DDoS

Paul Anderson by Paul Anderson
August 26, 2014
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PS4, PS3, and PS Vita systems had been impacted yesterday due to the PlayStation Network being down. The service, in addition to numerous PC multiplayer games, where apparently taken down by hackers.

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Sony acknowledged the PSN problem via a tweet.

Network update: our engineers are aware of the issues and are working to resolve them. We'll keep you posted – sorry for the inconvenience

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) August 24, 2014

A group identified as Lizard Squad is declaring accountability for the attack on Sony’s servers. They took to Twitter to taunt Sony.

https://twitter.com/LizardSquad/statuses/503488179651878912

PlayStation owners aren’t strangers to server outages. Three years back, hackers took down PSN for a whole month. The long outage led Sony to apologize at E3 months later and gave out free games to everyone impacted.

Lizard Squad then chose to call in a bomb threat for Smedley’s flight home:

https://twitter.com/LizardSquad/statuses/503595025301635073

Lizard Squad apparently took down servers for a number of other PC games. For instance, they targeted Blizzard’s Battle.net earlier this weekend. This stopped many from playing Hearthstone, Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft. The final update from Blizzard’s customer support states that they have the server issues in check, though:

We are gradually bringing everyone back online again. Thank you all once again for your patience and for following our twitter feed. :D

— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) August 24, 2014

League of Legends was brought down by Lizard Squad as well. Developer Riot Games admitted in a forum post that DDOS problems have been happening for several weeks, though. They seem resigned to the fact that this is a regular hazard for any multiplayer game.

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