{"id":72328,"date":"2014-12-08T07:02:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T07:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=72328"},"modified":"2014-12-08T07:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T07:02:15","slug":"sonys-playstation-hit-hack-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=72328","title":{"rendered":"Sony’s PlayStation hit by hack attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hacker group has claimed responsibility for attacking Sony’s online PlayStation store, which is down on Monday.<\/p>\n

Visitors to the site are greeted with a message that says “Page Not Found! It’s not you. It’s the internet’s fault”.<\/p>\n

A group called “Lizard Squad” has taken credit for the outage, posting “PSN Login #offline #LizardSquad” as their Twitter status.<\/p>\n

The outage is the most recent in a series of attacks on tech giant Sony.<\/p>\n

The Japanese firm’s Hollywood film studios’ corporate network was hacked into last month, followed by an online leak of unreleased movies, along with confidential information such as actors’ salaries.<\/p>\n

Sony Entertainment Network has responded by tweeting that they are aware of the issues that users are having in connecting to the PlayStation network.<\/p>\n

“Thanks for your patience as we investigate,” the company tweeted at about midnight GMT.<\/p>\n

The disruption comes just days after the gaming console celebrated its 20th anniversary last week.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the outage on the PlayStation network follows one on Microsoft Xbox network, which was down for at least a day last week.<\/p>\n

Lizard Squad also claimed it was behind the attack.<\/p>\n

The Xbox network was hit with a DDOS, or a distributed denial of service attack, which overloaded the system, stopping users from getting online.<\/p>\n

The hacker group had then said that its Xbox attack was just “a small dose” of what was to come over the Christmas season.<\/p>\n

Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for attacks that have taken high-profile targets like EA games and Destiny offline in the past.<\/p>\n

Known as Lizard Patrol on Twitter, the anonymous collective has a Russian-based website.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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