Scrooges strike: Xbox Live, Playstation Network both down. Bad news if there was an Xbox or Playstation under the tree this Christmas Day: You won. Both system networks are experiencing issues, reportedly due to a denial of service attack, says Neowin. The same can be said for. Hacker group Lizard Squad has taken responsibility for taking down the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live on Christmas Day in UK and the US. Hacker group Lizard Squad has taken responsibility for taking down the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live on News. Microsoft and Sony have been working to restore internet platforms for their Xbox and PlayStation games consoles. Attacks disabled the online services on Christmas Day, making it difficult for users to log on. The Xbox Live status page suggested on Saturday that Microsoft services had been restored.
Sony Corp's PlayStation gaming network remains offline for a second day after it was hacked, while rival Microsoft, which faced the same attack, has fixed the problems at its Xbox Live. Hackers who call themselves the 'Lizard Squad' earlier attacked the computer networks of Microsoft's Xbox and Sony.The fact that Xbox was back up and running while PS devotees were still offline, perhaps even forced to. In August, the group said it took down the PlayStation network by flooding it with illegitimate traffic, something called a distributed denial-of-service attack. A hacker group has claimed responsibility for attacking Sony's online PlayStation store, which is down on Monday. Visitors to the site are greeted with a message that says 'Page Not Found! It's the internet's fault'. A group called 'Lizard Squad' has taken credit for the outage.
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