The Playstation Network back to suffer an attack by hackers, a DDoS attack that knocked down the server, but this time the same group also caused problems for Xbox Live.
The attack was claimed by the Group Lizard Squad and recalled the attack in 2011, twice. The first, caused such a problem which forced Sony to terminate its services for six weeks, and were targets of theft of several users ' data.
During the day yesterday the attack also caused problems on PSN, however was a DDoS attack, is sending several requests for information which causes a substantial increase of traffic and, in a final stage, lays down the server, which was what happened on PSN.
The Group was even farther, since via Twitter made a bomb threat on a flight where he traveled the President of Sony, John Smedley, and which forced the diversion of the plane, which landed without problems.
But the Group was very active and, also reported that attacked the Xbox Live servers through DDoS. However, the problem was not serious, since Microsoft was able to quickly resolve and maximum which was registered by Microsoft itself has some problems on authentication, according to Engadget.
According to the information available by Sony, the Playstation Network Service is now operating normally.
The attack was claimed by the Group Lizard Squad and recalled the attack in 2011, twice. The first, caused such a problem which forced Sony to terminate its services for six weeks, and were targets of theft of several users ' data.
The Group was even farther, since via Twitter made a bomb threat on a flight where he traveled the President of Sony, John Smedley, and which forced the diversion of the plane, which landed without problems.
But the Group was very active and, also reported that attacked the Xbox Live servers through DDoS. However, the problem was not serious, since Microsoft was able to quickly resolve and maximum which was registered by Microsoft itself has some problems on authentication, according to Engadget.
According to the information available by Sony, the Playstation Network Service is now operating normally.
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