PSN is down

[Matrinka]

Looks like PSN is being DDoSed for the holidays. Nothing says Merry Christmas like ruining someone else's fun.

[Tagihi]

Yea its a shame

[Black91CRX]

I really hope they can come up with a way to keep this from happening so often/easily.

[Sylve]

I really hope they can come up with a way to keep this from happening so often/easily.

The problem with DDoS attacks is the way it happens.
The only way to 'fix' a DDoS attack is to also block legitimate users. Until we have a way to track each individual connection back through all the addresses theyre falsifying we wont have a way to actually block these kinda of attacks without affecting normal users.

[Kuroyasha]

Yea was gonna get up and farm some stuff b4 family came over, but nope! *Sigh* All I want for christmas is a gaming pc lol

[Hyouretsuzan]

Yea, sucks for us PSN players. Didn't even realized it happened since I was at work. I just now tried to log on but to no avail. Guess we'll just have to wait it out >>;
http://bgr.com/2014/12/25/psn-and-xb...ristmas-hacks/

Ah well. I suppose I have other games I gotta catch up on so today would be a good time to do that.

[Mysteltain]

Happened last night before maintenance, happens now before dinner. Ah well, guess someone didn't like getting coal/insert cultural equivalent for Christmas/relevant Holiday.

[Giralus]

Don't know if this is a ddos attack, there are how many people that got ps4 for Christmas. That got ps4 games for Christmas , that are all downloading content , how many people streaming games and movies for the holiday on their ps4 . 3 months ago there were 10 million ps4 sold through to customers world wide. And I'm sure this holiday season at least another 2 million have been sold as people want to play with friend and family on the same console. So it could just be Sony servers simply cannot handle the shear amount of people trying to access their servers all at the same time today.

[Nep_Nep]

Yep. Gotta love them "hackers". Love how even though they're "Hackers" they seem to be making complete fools of Sony. Probably Xbox too. I dunno if Live is up and running but I know PSN is still down. Been down the whole day so far.

[Yshnal]

Xbox Live is down too, apparently.

Their lives must be very miserable if they have to screw with the Christmas of so many children that can't play their games today. I know that there's worse things in the world, but come on, it's sad that they have to do this on Christmas day.

I feel bad for you all on the consoles.