But it’s been especially patchy lately. In August, digital punks calling themselves “Lizard Squad” interrupted the PlayStation Network along with several others. On Dec. 8, they attacked knocking the network offline again. They successfully took down the network yet-again during Christmas, ruining new gifts for millions of people.
On Sunday evening, during the Super Bowl, the PlayStation Network wouldn’t let users sign in. The outage went on for six hours. On Twitter, someone claiming to be a member of Anonymous took credit, but other members of the online hacker collective distanced themselves and questioned the person’s claims.
All of these issues are separate from North Korea’s massive hack of Sony Pictures, the company’s Hollywood studio.
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