Sony’s PlayStation network was down on Black Friday; Live now

Lizard Squad have repeatedly targeted the online gaming platforms of Sony and Microsoft over the past year. During this month, its sales reached nearly one million in the United States, without taking into account the massive game sales which customers took advantage of during this Black Friday’s PS Store Flash Sale, with games being discounted for up to 80% or even 90% if the user is now subscribed to PS Plus. Thanks for your patience as we investigate.

Users were experiencing difficulties with signing in and creating accounts on the network.

Hopefully this latest outage will not last as long as the first, but we’ll keep you updated nevertheless. The leader of the Lizard Squad just tweeted that it was their doing at the moment when PSN was down. The primary Lizard Squad Twitter account implicated itself in the attack, retweeting a message from an account claiming to represent the founder of group that said simply, “PSN #OFFLINE #CHIPPY #LIZARDSQUAD”. The group may be claiming it was to boost its visibility but it is still possible that the network fell apart while handling the waves of new console registrations and people taking the day off work to go shopping and play games.

Users are now beginning to report stable access to most services, which suggests that the service is coming closer to its normal functionality once again.

The outage, which began at 10:24 a.m. EST and was ongoing until 11:17 a.m., also affected video and music content, PlayStation store purchases and PlayStation Vue services, much to the frustration of gamers on Twitter.

This service hiccup was claimed to be an attack performed by the infamous hacker group known as Lizard Squad, which has a habit of targeting PSN and Xbox Live services due to various reasons.

It also noted that Sony’s online services experienced various problems.