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wraggster
August 28th, 2014, 15:25
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Sony may be experiencing a few unpleasant flashbacks (http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/02/sony-begins-full-restoration-of-its-psn-and-qriocity-services/) this weekend. Both the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) are slowly recovering (https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/503577213690576896) from a denial of service attack that flooded their server connections, kicking many gamers offline. The groupclaiming (https://twitter.com/LizardSquad/status/503468562304868353) responsibility, Lizard Squad, reportedly started out (http://www.shacknews.com/article/85951/blizzard-playstation-network-and-more-under-wide-ddos-attack) 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.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/24/psn-down-following-attacks/