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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— Lizard Squad (@LizardPatrol) December 8, 2014

Posted: Dec 08, 2014 3:30 am
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