PSN is down

[Maero]

EDIT: apparently this person is the reason for everything and Lizardsquad tried to claim the credit for it.

https://twitter.com/FamedGod

So he is the real asshat behind all of this bs, re-open Alcatraz and throw him in there

[RyujinUzikin]

I wonder if there's a way to prevent this, some effective counter-measure. It seems laughable a multimillionaire company can be screwed by people who are probably unemployed and bored.

[DefendPopPunk]

I wonder if there's a way to prevent this, some effective counter-measure. It seems laughable a multimillionaire company can be screwed by people who are probably unemployed and bored.

Try multibillion dollar company.

[Lithera]

I wonder if there's a way to prevent this, some effective counter-measure. It seems laughable a multimillionaire company can be screwed by people who are probably unemployed and bored.

Unfortunately there isn't a whole lot you can do to prevent DDOS attacks on servers that are already high traffic. A DDOS attack is simply spamming a server with requests/data until it crashes. You can redirect traffic across all the servers you want but a connection into your network is always going to start with one server (Lobby in the case of FFXIV) which can easily be flooded faster than it can reroute connections.

[Songi]

Just was able to log in (on PS3), not sure if they're done doing whatever they're doing but keep trying if you can't still get in.

[Yamimarik]

For those who have logged on since this happened, you guys from NA? east or west coast? just trying to figure out if its even an inkling up near my area lol sorry to ask.

[Ilitsa]

For those who have logged on since this happened, you guys from NA? east or west coast? just trying to figure out if its even an inkling up near my area lol sorry to ask.

I'm west coast (Victorville, CA), and have no access atm.

Also, @Mogi, I saw you had a pretty big earthquake, I didn't feel it up here, is everything ok?

[Mogi]

I'm west coast (Victorville, CA), and have no access atm.

Also, @Mogi, I saw you had a pretty big earthquake, I didn't feel it up here, is everything ok?

Oh yea i'm ok here ty^^ was scary thou as for me i'm in north CA i got into the game then got booted then was in for an hour but had to log and now i can't get in but if you call sony. Right away there messenger says they know psn is down and will be up soon {hope there not full of crap} but yes

[Songi]

For those who have logged on since this happened, you guys from NA? east or west coast? just trying to figure out if its even an inkling up near my area lol sorry to ask.

I'm in East Coast US (Florida) logged in about 15 mins ago. This was after constantly trying for over an hour straight.

[Naberrie]

I just got in. I'm in California.