{"id":68176,"date":"2014-08-25T07:46:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T05:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68176"},"modified":"2014-08-25T07:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T05:48:35","slug":"playstation-network-attacked-sony-online-president-on-plane-full-of-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/68176-playstation-network-attacked-sony-online-president-on-plane-full-of-bombs","title":{"rendered":"Sony did not have a good weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony reported on Sunday, 24 August 2014, that its PlayStation Network had been taken down by denial of service attacks, although no personal information of account holders was accessed.<\/p>\n

“Like other major networks around the world, the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network have been impacted by an attempt to overwhelm our network with artificially high traffic.”<\/p>\n

“Although this has impacted your ability to access our network and enjoy our services, no personal information has been accessed,” Sony posted on the PlayStation Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sony said it was doing its\u00a0best to restore the service as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

In separate news, the FBI are investigating the diversion of a flight carrying\u00a0Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley on Sunday, after a\u00a0group called Lizard Squad sent a message to\u00a0American Airlines saying the plane he was on was laden with explosives.<\/p>\n

Sony and the FBI declined to comment on the plane incident, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Watch your back Sony, PS4 haters are out to get you.<\/p>\n

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The PlayStation Network was attacked, and the Sony Online president was on a “plane full of bombs”. Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":61009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,5252,1387,71],"class_list":["post-68176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-ddos","tag-playstation-network","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68178,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68176\/revisions\/68178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}