PSN Taken Down In Major DDoS Attack By Lizard Squad

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PlayStation Network went down throwing thousands of gamers offline and rendering many services unusable. Lizard Squad has, as usual, taken credit for the outage.

The attack is very real, too. You can see a visual representation of the DDOS attack live on websites such as Digital Attack Map. Traffic appears to originate from proxies in China which are slamming the North American PSN servers. There also appears to be an attack hitting Peru. It is presently unclear what this is affecting.

Over 1,400 Twitter users have already retweeted the post offering just a glimpse at how profound of an impact it has had. Not only are PS4 users affected, but so are those on PS3 and PS Vita.

Last weekend Lizard Squad took down not only Xbox Live, but impacted the arrival of World of Warcraft; Warlords of Draenor‘s first PvP season and raid dungeon. It accomplishes this through DDoS attacks, which essentially bombard servers that host online services with traffic to a point where they are incapable of handling connections from real users.



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AlexPosted:

PCMR Reporting in, it's not too late you can still join the master race.

-GoldCoast-Posted:

Treyarched
GibbityTree
TheySuspendedMe PC MUSTARD RACE.
CAN'T TAKE US DOWN YO


LMAO that was a good one mane.


Until they decide to DDOS steam servers.

if they do then something bad is going to happen

TreyarchedPosted:

GibbityTree
TheySuspendedMe PC MUSTARD RACE.
CAN'T TAKE US DOWN YO


LMAO that was a good one mane.


Until they decide to DDOS steam servers.

-GoldCoast-Posted:

so all these attacks are just preparing us for christmas ?

GibbityTreePosted:

TheySuspendedMe PC MUSTARD RACE.
CAN'T TAKE US DOWN YO


LMAO that was a good one mane.

lolohnoeszszPosted:

These guys are so terrible at ddosing I think they need to quit.


"Guys guys we shut PSN down for 40 minutes SUCCESS!!"

Yeah nah..

TheySuspendedMePosted:

PC MUSTARD RACE.
CAN'T TAKE US DOWN YO

FamousPosted:

-Maury- Can't wait to see what they have in Store for us on Christmas.lol


I am with you on that one, just waiting now.

SkittlePosted:

This is gonna be the majority of the news...

CowOGPosted:

Can't wait to see what they have in Store for us on Christmas.lol