(Back up now) PSN and others are offline at the time of writing, apparently thanks to a DDOS attack.
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Sony Online President's Flight Diverted After Hacker Bomb Threat
http://kotaku.com/sony-online-presidents-flight-diverted-after-hacker-bom-1626249376
American Airlines has diverted a flight carrying the president of Sony Online Entertainment following what may have been a bomb threat by a group of alleged hackers—the same group that has claimed responsibility for a series of outages across the PlayStation Network and other gaming services this weekend.
The FBI is currently investigating the incident, an SOE representative told Kotaku today.
This afternoon at around 1:30pm Eastern, the group Lizard Squad tweeted at American Airlines to say that a flight carrying John Smedley, president of SOE, the developer behind EverQuest Next among other games, had "explosives on-board."
http://kotaku.com/sony-online-presidents-flight-diverted-after-hacker-bom-1626249376
American Airlines has diverted a flight carrying the president of Sony Online Entertainment following what may have been a bomb threat by a group of alleged hackers—the same group that has claimed responsibility for a series of outages across the PlayStation Network and other gaming services this weekend.
The FBI is currently investigating the incident, an SOE representative told Kotaku today.
This afternoon at around 1:30pm Eastern, the group Lizard Squad tweeted at American Airlines to say that a flight carrying John Smedley, president of SOE, the developer behind EverQuest Next among other games, had "explosives on-board."
I agree with that, but if this kid can get into Sony's servers like this, and this is legit, this is a massive security breach again.
Wow, that's very worrying a young kid can manage that. I'm glad I don't put my bank details on any gaming network. Sony, Sony Sony will you never learn?
C'mon, eVo.....
Link to when Steam was hacked and credit card numbers were possibly stolen.
Links to when Steam was down.
http://www.slashgear.com/steam-is-down-its-not-just-you-13320574/
http://www.slashgear.com/steam-is-down-its-not-just-you-but-it-is-just-the-store-24338568/
http://www.slashgear.com/steam-is-down-again-its-not-just-you-17320971/
http://www.slashgear.com/steam-summer-sale-begins-quickly-crashes-19334392/
C'mon, eVo.....
Link to when Steam was hacked and credit card numbers were possibly stolen.
Links to when Steam was down.
http://www.slashgear.com/steam-is-down-its-not-just-you-13320574/
http://www.slashgear.com/steam-is-down-its-not-just-you-but-it-is-just-the-store-24338568/
http://www.slashgear.com/steam-is-down-again-its-not-just-you-17320971/
http://www.slashgear.com/steam-summer-sale-begins-quickly-crashes-19334392/
I'm talking about this weekend..........
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WOW....not sure what is worse, Sony getting breached again or these people thinking this is some big and clever thing to accomplish.
This.
And yes, it's happened to Xbox as well, MS just doesn't go around announcing when they get attacked.
For crying out loud, they even have a page saying that when you can't connect, it could be due to a DDOS attack. For the record, in the past 8 years, there have been several times I can't connect, and the past few weeks, quite often, I get messages when I log into Live that some services are not up. How do we know what's a DDOS attack or not if MS doesn't announce it? Anyone thinking it doesn't happen to MS is deluding themselves.
http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/networking/dos-attacks-faq
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/02/microsoft-responds-to-xbox-live-denial-of-service-attack/
http://powerleveled.com/xbox-live-servers-now-limited-in-capacity-with-ddos-attacks-in-progress/
http://wi-fi-tournaments.forumotion.com/t3110-add-xbox-live-to-the-ddos-attack-list
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This isn't a security breach, it's a DDOS attack. It's an attempt to overload the service by bombarding it with massive amounts of traffic. Like someone else here said, it's no different than when a site goes down due to too many people trying to access it....like how many Big Brother sites go down when the first show starts.
That's different than a security breach. And yes, DDOS attacks have happened to Xbox.
Again, just because they don't make massive announcements, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
It wasn't like Sony was the first to report its outage. It was the main stream press that did. Live has went down for me in the past and it wasn't MSFT who made the announcement either. These things suck but they happen but stop trying to paint Sony is a positive light because they are the latest victim of their online service going down.
At least I was still able to play Diablo 3.
I know what a DDOS attack is.
If the tweets above are to be believed, this isn't just a DDOS since he was on their admin servers.
Check the famedgod guys tweets.
He did absolutely ddos attack MS as well, but he didn't take the entire service down for the entire day with the attack.
The guys results from the attack are in intellivisions post above, that second tweet. The actual effect last night was intermittent services issues on an absolutely minor scale for XBL. In fact I was playing Diablo 3 last night with no issues, though some did report issues. My wife didn't have a single problem at all throughout the rest if the day.
So yes, you are correct, MS does get cyber attacks; considering how much hate the company gets, it's probably all day, everyday. They just have their s*** together at least moreso than Sony. The famedgod guy mentioned in one of his tweets that Sony was operating off of a single data center via Amazon's cloud service.
I know what a DDOS attack is.
If the tweets above are to be believed, this isn't just a DDOS.
Yep, my post above has the tweets that strongly suggesting as much.
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Xbox has been done in the past, and for more than just a couple of hours. Again, just because it's not announced, doesn't mean it doesn't happen, and their site even tells you, that if you can't get on, it's probably due to DDOS attack.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/forum/showthread.php?t=583542&page=2
As for being able to play on D3 on XB1, people were also able to get into PS4, and many even said what they did to be able to get on (turning off network connection, resetting router, etc).
But that's heresay, we don't know if it's anything more than a DDOS attack. If it is, then so be it, but as of right now, officially, it's a DDOS attack.I know what a DDOS attack is.
If the tweets above are to be believed, this isn't just a DDOS.
I do recall a single day of having issues this summer; maybe it was that day. For me it was relatively minor though as I was already signed in before that happened. I think I had issues using netflix/twitch and some dash items weren't working properly iirc.
well those hackers or hacker are borderline r******d. this will land their ass in jail or the FBI or homeland busting down their door.
Doing some BS to company's servers is one thing and you can get away with it but making a bomb threat yeah WTF was the person thinking.
Update: PlayStation Network is Back Online
UPDATE: The PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network are back online and people can now enjoy the services on their PlayStation devices. The networks were taken offline due to a distributed denial of service attack. We have seen no evidence of any intrusion to the network and no evidence of any unauthorized access to users’ personal information.
In light of today’s issue, the networks will not undergo the regularly scheduled maintenance, which was planned for Monday, August 25. We will provide an update shortly for when the maintenance will be rescheduled.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by this issue. Thanks for your patience and support.
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Like other major networks around the world, the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network have been impacted by an attempt to overwhelm our network with artificially high traffic.
Although this has impacted your ability to access our network and enjoy our services, no personal information has been accessed.
We will continue to work towards fixing this issue and hope to have our services up and running as soon as possible.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.
UPDATE: The PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network are back online and people can now enjoy the services on their PlayStation devices. The networks were taken offline due to a distributed denial of service attack. We have seen no evidence of any intrusion to the network and no evidence of any unauthorized access to users’ personal information.
In light of today’s issue, the networks will not undergo the regularly scheduled maintenance, which was planned for Monday, August 25. We will provide an update shortly for when the maintenance will be rescheduled.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by this issue. Thanks for your patience and support.
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Like other major networks around the world, the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network have been impacted by an attempt to overwhelm our network with artificially high traffic.
Although this has impacted your ability to access our network and enjoy our services, no personal information has been accessed.
We will continue to work towards fixing this issue and hope to have our services up and running as soon as possible.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.
It's a security breach because one kid said so and it happened to Sony. DDOS never happened to MS if you're far enough in denial.
Wow, the internet rabbit hole from this lead me to another round of Phil Fish to me finding out that gaming journalism is even worse then I had expected, to finally me wondering what is happening to my hobby. Thanks alot internet, you win today! 
Early yesterday morning, PlayStation 4 users found out exactly how the online DRM works for digital titles on their console. This is because Sony’s PlayStation Network was the victim of relentless DDoS attacks that have been plaguing both Blizzard and Riot over the last couple of days. Users who were unable to access their digital library were surprised by this. For those of you that are unaware, if your PlayStation 4 is not set as the “Primary” console, it will not allow you to play digital games offline. This is part of the initial setup process, so you should be good to go if you were paying attention. If not, I suggest you make this correction as soon as possible
Its been up since last night. I was watching netflix on it and deciding if i was going to buy anything during the flash sale.
PSN didn’t work for me at all on Sunday.
I didn’t think it could get worse than those who tried to defend Sony for making the decision for them and everyone else in not allowing EA Access on Playstation platforms. But you guys have sunk even lower by defending Sony for a network outage. Its pathetic and hilarious at the same time.
I didn’t think it could get worse than those who tried to defend Sony for making the decision for them and everyone else in not allowing EA Access on Playstation platforms. But you guys have sunk even lower by defending Sony for a network outage. Its pathetic and hilarious at the same time.
Who's "defending" them?
All I see are people saying that Xbox has also come under DDOS attacks when others said they have not. No one here stated otherwise.
Why would anyone feel the need to defend Sony when the culprits are hackers?
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