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 not
you. It's the internet's fault".
A
group called "Lizard Squad" has taken credit for the outage, posting
"PSN Login #offline #LizardSquad" as their Twitter status.
The
outage is the most recent in a series of attacks on tech giant Sony.
The
Japanese firm's Hollywood film studios' corporate network was hacked into last
month, followed by an
online leak of unreleased movies, along with confidential
information such as actors' salaries.
Sony
Entertainment Network has responded by tweeting that they are aware of the
issues that users are having in connecting to the PlayStation network.
"Thanks
for your patience as we investigate," the company tweeted at about
midnight GMT.
The
disruption comes just days after the gaming console celebrated its 20th
anniversary last week.
Meanwhile,
the outage on the PlayStation network follows one on Microsoft Xbox network,
which was down for at least a day last week.
Lizard
Squad also claimed it was behind the attack.
The
Xbox network was hit with a DDOS, or a distributed denial of service attack,
which overloaded the system, stopping users from getting online.
The
hacker group had then said that its Xbox attack was just "a small
dose" of what was to come over the Christmas season.
Lizard
Squad has claimed responsibility for attacks that have taken high-profile
targets like EA games and Destiny offline in the past.
Known
as Lizard Patrol on Twitter, the anonymous collective has a Russian-based
website.
BBC
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