Sony may be experiencing a few unpleasant flashbacks this weekend. Both the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) are slowly recovering from a denial of service attack that flooded their server connections, kicking many gamers offline. The group claiming responsibility, Lizard Squad, reportedly started out bombarding servers run by Blizzard (World of Warcraft), Grinding Gear Games (Path of Exile) and Riot Games (League of Legends) before swinging its attention Sony’s way.
The motivations are fuzzy at this point — the attackers don’t take themselves too seriously — but you likely won’t have to worry about your account being compromised like you did back in 2011. As SOE’s John Smedley explains, the culprits are simply trying to overwhelm Sony rather than break in. That won’t be much comfort if you wanted to squeeze in a few rounds of Killzone before the weekend was over, but it hopefully means that you can get back to playing without worrying that your data is vulnerable. In at least SOE’s case, some services are already back up and running — give it a try and let others know how it’s going in the comments.
Network update: our engineers are aware of the issues and are working to resolve them. We’ll keep you posted – sorry for the inconvenience
– PlayStation (@PlayStation) August 24, 2014
Services will be gradually restored. For some it’s up now. For others the route they take may be flooded so they can’t log in yet.
– John Smedley (@j_smedley) August 24, 2014
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Via: Shacknews, Joystiq
Source: PlayStation (Twitter), LizardSquad (Twitter)