PSN down... LizardSquad take credit

There has never been a time where XBL has been down for days at a time. If XBL was down for a day it was mostly due to maintenance.

Dont even being to try and state that XBL has been shut down before like sony. Hell the last time i recall people had issues with the XBL it was during holiday season when the servers got overun with too many new accounts.

@lawlessx: Sony has been down for days at a time ONCE. And titanfall caused XBL to crash a few months ago.

I find it quite pathetic for anyone to "hack" or digitally "attack" a game company. At least the type where information isn't getting stolen.

I mean...oohhhhhhhh.....those game companies...they're such evil entities. Gotta show the world we mean business by making little Jimmy not able to play his PS4.

**** man....if you're going to hack something do it to someone that deserves it or something...make your hack worth while.

All these lizard ppl are doing is fucking with gamers.....omg....what a fucking dangerous group of ppl.

I can't even look at my trophies on the ps4 while it's offline...

" Lizard Squad has now set their sights on Xbox Live. Xbox Support confirms that service has been affected."

It's a denial of service attack. More common than most people would think. No one is really immune to this.

So this "lizardsqaud" is just making it an unfun weekend for everone?

Lizard Squad @LizardSquad · 9h

Kuffar don't get to play videogames until bombing of the ISIL stops. #ISIL#PSN#ISIS

They're certainly trying.

@Animal-Mother: Definitely a pain in the ass. He also called in a bomb threat on a plane that a Sony exec was on.

I do find it funny that Lems were quick to pounce on this and claim that Sonys network is shit and Microsoft is so much better. Now Lizardsquad is targeting XBL and it is down as well. That sure shut them up pretty quickly.

So both networks are shit. Why are consolites paying to partake in the online services again?

Thank you to everyone for responding.

So this guys just a lunatic that will be locked up...

@bldgirsh: what difference does it make to you? People pay for things they find value in.

I don't smoke or drink(not often anyways). Does that mean I should ask why people spend hundreds of dollars at the bar every weekend? No, not at all.

He has also attacked Blizzard and PoE servers. He's attacking gaming on every front. It's not just a console issue.

@RicanV: Why though?

This is some funny crap, well it's only funny because of the Xbox idiots on here saying PSN is crap because it can't withstand a DDOS attack. Well Microsoft Azure is great... now imagine cloud power you could be getting on Xbox One while a DDOS is going on, epic.

Looks like they can

I still don't understand why they are doing these to gaming companies. They aren't going to win sympathy cards from gamers.

I suspect we will eventually get a statement saying he did it for the people. More than likely he wanted his 15 minutes of fame.

Smedley is an awesome person and an awesome gamer. Hes the best thing to happen to Sony's PC division in a long time.

This is ugly:

http://map.ipviking.com/

Currently viewing 1128 simultaneous attacks into the U.S. with 506 originating from Russia, 220 from within the U.S., 200 from China, etc.

It just keeps updating the map.

@RicanV: So just to attack like an immense jerk and get locked up.... Some 15 minutes of fame.

I know about that site, USA was getting attacked so hard by China and brazil Saturday lol.

I don't believe that this is a single person and I doubt they live in the U.S.

Probabyl not. when there's a will there's a way though.

There's more than one. That's generally how this all goes down. One entity claims it's for the greater good, meanwhile it's just to get their name out there. But it seems like it was from inside the US.

Ah, last gen this would've been a completely different argument.

The big bad community of gamers will be taught a lesson.

Apparently, Lizard ppl are mad that gamers don't accept Farmville as hardcore.

We deserve this attack....we should be ashamed of ourselves.

/sarcasm

So, this is somehow tablet gamers fault? It makes sense I guess. Damn people trying to shove microtransaction down our throats. Eyes looking at you Clash of Clans.

Some of the attacks are originating in the U.S., but if you look at a realtime map of the origins of the attacks and their targets, it seems that the majority are originating from China, followed by the U.S., and Russia against U.S. targets.

Currently showing: 2200 attacks originating from China into the U.S.

1300 attacks from the U.S. into the U.S.

690 from Russia into the U.S.

5600 simultaneous attacks and rising.

The attacks originating from within the U.S. are likely just compromised systems in a larger global botnet.

Fcking hate hackers, dont they have any better things to do than make gamers angry?

Extradition treaties are an amazing thing.

This site is interesting...

If these attacks are originating from the countries I listed, then they're unlikely to be cooperative.

@charizard1605: Especially when you threaten an airline...

except for the fact that he ruined Star War Galaxies, but i agree he is a cool guy

Yeah. I mean, a hack is pretty much reason enough (the guy who leaked Half Life 2 before its launch was handed over to the authorities thanks to an extradition treaty, so this would easily be a big enough incident to warrant such a response), but actually issuing a bomb threat officially puts these guys under the terrorist label. They're pretty much screwed.

@charizard1605: yeah I remember the hl2 thing they did it under the guise of an invite that got him to the US.

It'll be interesting to watch this unfold

Is this the sort of thing you go to holiday resort prison for....or big boy bang me in the ass prison?

I hope they go to bang me in the ass prison.

Edit: Oh wait....did I just read that they did a bomb threat? Thats a "secret never heard from again prison" offense.

Ordinarily, if this were just a hack, I wouldn't care as much (assuming no credit card information or such was lost). But in this case, they've crossed all lines, I hope these guys are caught, and that they are caught soon.

@daious: Why? Cause they feel like it. Though apparently their motto is "Lizards just want to watch the world burn." They want to take Sony out once and for all. People can chose to do whatever they want, but they will have to deal with the consequences.

Steam was hit by DDOS too for those in denial here's a thread started by a MOD: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=c3bfcec599c6aaed344048a8bb56b3da&p=35709217#post35709217

In fact, Steam was hit before PSN.

Do can I sue subscriptionstation for this? I hate Sony so I'm looking for any reason to sue them.

@charizard1605: agreed there's a line you just don't cross sometimes

I really cracked up at that.

Well this sure is FOR GAMERS, huh?

What are you talking ? i can play titanfall just fine with my fried and the site says that limited service ONLY with party chat in diablo 3 which is make sense because blizzard server also get ddosed

If the analogy works then it works....I don't see how an analogy has to pertain to the subject matter of the forum.

That makes no sense...it's an analogy.

@handssss: The Nintendo Network may not be the same caliber as XBL and PSN just cause it doesn't have Party Chat, but Nintendo's Online Security is updated monthy, it is constantly changing so there isn't enough time to learn it fully through before it can get hacked. Nintendo is not on the same radar as Sony and Microsoft for hackers, which is a good thing.

It wasn't affected by the DDoS. Nothing was brought down... Steam probably has gotten ddos'd various amounts of time. But, its services have rarely been brought down from it.

I know. I wanted to remove mine. This blows. Ok, they have something against companies I guess. Well hack their internal emails or employee stuff if you need to be a baby. Leave the gamers alone.