{"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\/2014\/12\/sonys-playstation-hit-hack-attack\/","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