PSN Down? Phantom Squad confirm they will “Definitely Attack PSN/XBL on Christmas”, claim responsibility for EA servers DDoS
Electronic Arts servers were down for a couple hours earlier today, and it seems Phantom Squad have claimed responsibility for the DDoS.
given that all their twitter accounts get closed one after the other, it is difficult to confirm how true things can be at this point, but it’s a fact that EA servers were down a few hours ago, and according to Techworm, Phantom Squad claimed responsibility for that.
In parallel, this account, which seems linked to the group, announced the would definitely be attacking PSN/Xbox Live for Christmas.
We’ll definitely be attacking PSN/XBL on Christmas;D
— Phantom Squad (@RealPhantomRaid) December 24, 2015
Screenshot in case it gets taken down by twitter: 
The same twitter account claims they have joined forced with Lizard Squad, the group that attacked the PXN and XBL last year with similar DDoS attacks. It’s possible the DDoS attacks have already begun (although it is not clear if this is done by Phantom Squad or another root cause), as the PSN is apparently very difficult to access right now. A Flash sale was supposed to happen on the PSN earlier today and people are having a hard time accessing it:
everyone pls log off PSN — Wario64 (@Wario64) December 24, 2015
It’s shaping like we could have another sad Christmas on the PSN and Xbox Live if script kiddies decide that their way of having fun is to ruin other gamers’ Christmas.
No problem in France, PSN work 🙂
In RF no problems either.
what about PC gaming
Steam is way more complex than PSN/XBL servers, and we can assume that these “hackers” – (script-kids) use Steam themselves, so I highly doubt they’d want to take down the same service they also use, but there is always a possibility that script-kids will be able to take down Steam in the future, but the chances are much lower, and the possibility of these script-kids in the article taking Steam down is verrrrry low.
Except they are doing it now
Maybe if we just ignore them they will go away? Seems that they are in need of attention, since their parents never gave them any.
*** do they get out of doing this. I understand if they have a beef against sony and microsoft but at this point they are just ruining xmas for the kids
I find this quiet sad, ah its good to be a PC gamer where there is alternatives like origin if steam goes down. There is also am abundance of other games tl enjoy and dedicated servers help.
The problem is not just gaming online, it’s the need for the PlayStations to be connected to the PlayStation network to do anything online including Netflix, day one patches, firmware update etc, although the latter can be done by usb
First i guess
Looks like I’ll have to spend time with my… my… my.. family!?!?
I’ve read that people are already having issues signing in and the PSN Status page isn’t loading on my end…I just checked and i’m able to log into PSN….not sure if they have hit yet or if its just a fluke that people are having problems (Seems like SOMEONE is always having problems with PSN anyway)
Oooooh, phantom squad, such leet hackers, we can do DDoS.
Friggin kids
somethings happening on psn the store says every game has been downloaded 392 times ff7 was at 8000+
get what u want now before it goes down
Psn has been working fine all day for me, no problems in the United kingdom
So, what’s the deal? They want attention? Are they trying to impress us?
I don’t really know who to be mad at. I mean Kim is right. The two did have an entire year to prepare for this.
Bored PC gamerz, I don’t blame them, PC has nothing worth playing games outside of F2P/MMO.
Except for superior console ports, better control system, 4k, true flight sims and peripherals
seriously?
nintendo doesn’t go through this ***.
since when does Shutting down servers. a thing just to show how weak security is..?
I find it hard to believe we have an army preventing such travesties! one Sony / NEG hack
A while ago when i was watching youtube i notice a volume at the top of my tv like its turn down and went up ..i was shock because thats not the style or ui of my tv..so i started thinking about the psn got hack or whatever…that experience never ever happened before so..i hope they got my account?!…oh dang…i dont know what to do…