Merry Christmas, gamers: Both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network are down this morning, apparently due to a denial-of-service attack. The notorious hacking group Lizard Squad -- which already carried out earlier attacks on Microsoft and Sony -- has claimed responsibility on Twitter for these latest outages. While the group's role in all of this remains unconfirmed, it's worth noting that the group threatened last week to take down Xbox Live and PSN, according to Business Insider. And again, Lizard Squad has already proven it can successfully pull off such attacks, to mention other malicious pranks.
In the meantime, both Sony and Microsoft have acknowledged issues, with Sony issuing a tweet and Microsoft posting a message on its support website: "We're working to address this as quickly as we possibly can," reads its status website. "Thanks for your patience, Xbox members." Whatever the cause, the timing is obviously nothing if not terrible: Plenty of people surely received one of the two consoles as Christmas presents today, while many more gamers would have happily spent the afternoon in front of the TV.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
10,00RTS and we will stop smacking #Xbox and #PSN offline
- Lizard Squad (@FUCKCRUCIFIX) December 25, 2014
We are aware that there have been issues reported with PSN. Thanks for your patience as we investigate.
- Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) December 24, 2014 
Filed under: Gaming, Internet, Sony, Microsoft
Via: VentureBeat, Business Insider
Source: PlayStation (Twitter), Lizard Squad (Twitter)
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