A hacker group calling itself the “Lizard Squad” has claimed responsibility for attacking Sony’s online PlayStation network.
Gamers who visited they PlayStation store Sunday were greeted by a message that said “Page Not Found! It’s not you. It’s the Internet’s fault.”
The hacker group took responsibility for the attack via a posting to Twitter.
https://twitter.com/LizardPatrol/status/541751366297743360
The outage is the most recent hacking attempt against Tokyo-based Sony (SNE). The company’s Hollywood film studio was targeted last month, resulting in an online leak of unreleased movies, as well as a list of confidential salary information.
It isn’t the first time Sony’s PlayStation network has been a target for online attacks. A hacking attempt in late August led the company to temporarily take its system offline after an influx of artificially high traffic overwhelmed the service — an event that’s referred to as a DDoS, or a distributed denial of service attack.
Rival gaming system Xbox, a division of Microsoft (MSFT), was the victim of a similar attack last week. Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for that incident as well.
The hacker group, an anonymous collective with a Russia-based website, said the attacks are a taste of further targeting to come over the holiday season.
https://twitter.com/LizardPatrol/status/541307057480425472
Lizard Squad has also claimed responsibility for past attacks on other gaming targets, such as Electronic Arts (EA) games and Destiny offline.