{"id":68210,"date":"2014-08-25T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68210"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:43:19","slug":"playstation-network-back-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/68210-playstation-network-back-online","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Network back online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp said Monday its PlayStation Network was back online after it suffered a cyberattack and was unavailable over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The network was taken offline &#8220;due to a distributed denial of service attack &#8230; an attempt to overwhelm our network with artificially high traffic,&#8221; Sony said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen no evidence of any intrusion to the network and no evidence of any unauthorized access to users&#8217; personal information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A hacker group going by the name Lizard Squad claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sony, yet another large company, but they aren&#8217;t spending the waves of cash they obtain on their customers&#8217; PSN service. End the greed,&#8221; one of its Twitter posts said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/67606-best-internet-service-providers-in-sa.html\">Best Internet Service Providers in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/68030-r-a-t-tournament-edition-gaming-mouse-sa-price.html\">R.A.T Tournament Edition gaming mouse \u2013 SA price<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/67794-asus-rog-maximus-vii-formula-z97-porn-for-transformers.html\">Asus ROG Maximus VII Formula Z97 \u2013 porn for transformers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp said Monday its PlayStation Network was back online after it suffered a cyberattack and was unavailable over the weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":64867,"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":[11681],"tags":[31,5252,1870,1387,71],"class_list":["post-68210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-ddos","tag-playstation","tag-playstation-network","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68210","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}