At Long Last, PlayStation Network Recovers from Lizard Squad DDoS Attack

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It took nearly three days for the service to stagger back to its feet

Hacker group Lizard Squad took down both Microsoft and Sony’s online gaming networks on Christmas Day with denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that continued into the wee hours of Friday, December 26, 2014. (The attacks supposedly came to an end when the hackers agreed to Kim Dotcom’s offer of 3,000 free vouchers for premium Mega accounts in exchange for stopping the DDoS campaign). While Microsoft was able to get its Xbox Live service back up and running on Friday itself, Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN), for some inexplicable reason, continued to remain offline for over two days after the DDoS campaign against it came to a halt.
“PlayStation Network is back online. As you probably know, PlayStation Network and some other gaming services were attacked over the holidays with artificially high levels of traffic designed to disrupt connectivity and online gameplay. This may have prevented your access to the network and its services over the last few days,” wrote Catherine Jensen, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s vice president of consumer experience, in a post on the official PlayStation blog.
Sony’s handling of the whole episode has left a lot to be desired. As if the surprisingly protracted outage wasn’t enough, the company made matters worse for itself on Saturday when it rather prematurely announced that network services were “gradually coming back online”, only to realize a few hours later that the problem had yet to be fully fixed.
For those still having issues signing in to PSN, Sony recommends that they reboot their machine and try again.
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