Playstation Network Hack

OurMine also claimed that the PlayStation Network database was also potentially compromised.

Five years after PlayStation Network (PSN) was compromised and saw repeated downtime in the recent past, Sony has finally unveiled two-step verification.

The attacks by Phantom Squad are reminiscent of last December when both popular gaming services suffered extended outages.

But the punishment doesn't seem to fit the crime.

Two purported members of the Lizard Squad hacking group were reportedly arrested earlier this week by Finnish and UK authorities.

"PSN and some other gaming services were attacked over the holidays with artificially high levels of traffic..."

The disruption started Christmas Day, PlayStation and Xbox said on their Twitter feeds, adding that they were working to restore service.

Microsoft's online network for its Xbox gaming console was restored to nearly full service Friday after an alleged coordinated Christmas Day hack brought it and Sony's PlayStation network down.

The tab will be less than the $171 million Sony estimated for the breach of its PlayStation Network in 2011.

Sony said its systems were back online and the company was investigating the cause of the disruption.

An hour before the Japanese giant acknowledged issues with PSN, a hacking group took credit for the attack.

Sony said PSN had been taken down by a DDOS-style attack which did not intrude onto the network or access any of its 53 million users' information.

The company said that no personal information of the network was accessed in the attack.

Sony Corp. said the credit card data of PlayStation users around the world may have been stolen in a hack that forced it to shut down its network, disconnecting 77 million user accounts.

Christopher Miller's PlayStation Portable game console had been broken for most of two years.

OurMine also claimed that the PlayStation Network database was also potentially compromised.

Five years after PlayStation Network (PSN) was compromised and saw repeated downtime in the recent past, Sony has finally unveiled two-step verification.

The attacks by Phantom Squad are reminiscent of last December when both popular gaming services suffered extended outages.

But the punishment doesn't seem to fit the crime.

Two purported members of the Lizard Squad hacking group were reportedly arrested earlier this week by Finnish and UK authorities.

"PSN and some other gaming services were attacked over the holidays with artificially high levels of traffic..."

The disruption started Christmas Day, PlayStation and Xbox said on their Twitter feeds, adding that they were working to restore service.

Microsoft's online network for its Xbox gaming console was restored to nearly full service Friday after an alleged coordinated Christmas Day hack brought it and Sony's PlayStation network down.

The tab will be less than the $171 million Sony estimated for the breach of its PlayStation Network in 2011.

Sony said its systems were back online and the company was investigating the cause of the disruption.

An hour before the Japanese giant acknowledged issues with PSN, a hacking group took credit for the attack.

Sony said PSN had been taken down by a DDOS-style attack which did not intrude onto the network or access any of its 53 million users' information.

The company said that no personal information of the network was accessed in the attack.

Sony Corp. said the credit card data of PlayStation users around the world may have been stolen in a hack that forced it to shut down its network, disconnecting 77 million user accounts.

Christopher Miller's PlayStation Portable game console had been broken for most of two years.