Sony is offering its PlayStation owners a five-day membership extension after the company's network was taken down on Christmas Day by an external attack.
Owners — many of them new after receiving the console for Christmas — were unable to connect to the network due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the Sony system. The attack bombarded the network with huge amounts of traffic, stopping playstation owners connecting to it
Hacker group Lizard Squad claimed responsibility on Twitter (the tweets have now been deleted) for the Dec. 25 attack , which lasted for three days. Sony announced in a blog post on Dec. 27 that the service had been restored. Read more...
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