{"id":70916,"date":"2014-12-08T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T07:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70916"},"modified":"2014-12-08T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:17:50","slug":"playstation-network-hacked-is-very-much-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/70916-playstation-network-hacked-is-very-much-down","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Network attacked, is very much down"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update] Initial reports indicated that the PlayStation Network was breached, however it has now been reported that it was in fact a DDoS attack. PSN seems to be back online now following the attack.<\/p>\n

After facing an “unprecedented” breach at Sony Pictures, it seems Sony’s PlayStation Network has been knocked by hackers – with the infamous Lizard Squad taking credit.<\/p>\n

Trying to access PSN results in a lovely 404 message, and Lizard Squad’s Twitter account is having a gloat about it.<\/p>\n

Lizard Squad, if you recall, also claimed responsibility for the recent Xbox Live take-down, as well as nailing the EA and Destiny servers.<\/p>\n

\"Lizard<\/a>

Lizard Squad tweet<\/p><\/div>\n

The official PlayStation account has responded by tweeting that they are aware of the issues, and that users are having problems connecting to the PlayStation network.<\/p>\n

\"PSN<\/a>

PSN tweet<\/p><\/div>\n

The extent of the attack is not known at the moment, and there’s no word on what has been compromised.<\/p>\n

The recent Sony Pictures hack leaked a list of unreleased movies, and other confidential information such as actors’ salaries.<\/p>\n

So while we’re not saying expect the worst…expect something not good if this is the same kind of thing.<\/p>\n

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The PlayStation Network has been attacked, and is currently what we in the industry call “borked”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":70926,"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":[197,21,13146,1870,131],"class_list":["post-70916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-hack","tag-headline","tag-network","tag-playstation","tag-psn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70916","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70948,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70916\/revisions\/70948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}