Sony is undergoing maintenance

[Sekelani]

Hey guys, just to let y'all know, Sony is going under maintenance to iron out a few bugs that has been happening lately. So in case y'all are having issues adding friends, multiplayer, or purchasing games this is a heads up.
They have not stated how long it's gonna take though .

 

[Moberg]

Possibly it's not a maintenance thing.
http://www.vg247.com/2014/08/24/psn-ddos-hacked-battle-net-lizardsquad/

 

[Sekelani]

That's horrible. So in other words,some guy has tried hacking into there system?

 

[Moberg]

Yes, they should consider playing games instead of this irreasonable behaviour.

 

[Haze]

Seems to be ok now. Been able to log back into Youtube via PS3.

 

[Ciel]

Seems to be ok now. Been able to log back into Youtube via PS3.

Not working here in Chicago, are you able to do anything else?

 

[Moberg]

Yup, seems they are up atm.

 

[Ciel]

Yup, seems they are up atm.

Are you in the U.S.?

 

[f_dog80]

Westcoast canada. I'm getting the "sony is undergoing maintenance" message.

 

[Moberg]

Are you in the U.S.?

Nope, Europe. Not everything is fine now but they made progress.

 

[f_dog80]

Came on for a bit I hammered out a round of cod and now it's back to bein down. Even the app has the same error.

 

[Pennykid]

They will be doing maintenance Monday August 25 for a unknown amount of time to I have here'd

 

[daimashin]

The PSN is being DDoSed right now. Don't worry, it's not a hack. It's just a way of bombarding their servers with fake traffic jamming the network. It's got nothing to do with hacking crucial information. Sony may as well just went ahead with the scheduled maintenance while at it.

 

[Oberon]

Yep.

Official Sony blog on it here: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/08/24/playstation-network-update-2/#sf4320680

 

[Moberg]

The story even involves an alleged bomb on a plane.

"American Airlines has diverted a flight carrying the president of Sony Online Entertainment following what may have been a bomb threat by a group of alleged hackers—the same group that has claimed responsibility for a series of outages across the PlayStation Network and other gaming services this weekend".

http://kotaku.com/sony-online-presidents-flight-diverted-after-hacker-bom-1626249376

 

[Joel]

A lot of crazy stuff happened over the internet this past weekend. A bunch of providers were attacked. Looks like PS was having issues. I had my good ole fashioned book that I was reading so I didn't even realize it until I've sat at my desk and started catching up on the World. Hope everyone's information is safe out there.

 

[edogn12]

Have they gotton arrested yet?

 

[daveoldham]

I'm in the uk and its been off here since sunday the 24th. its now tuesday the 26th! sort it out PSN!

 

[f_dog80]

Was back yestersay for me. Undergoing maintenance again now, oh well.
It is what it is, remember when it was down for a solid month a couple years ago?
I can handle a couple days, thanks sony!

 

[ajally123]

https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/503665938516803584
Yeah looks like a DDOS attack and a fake bomb threat on a plane. The SOE presiden'ts plane was diverted. Looks like they had to stop and check everyone's bags. I hate how people always turn to troubling Sony.