Sunday, December 28, 2014

Works to repair Sony Play Station Network service – The Economist

After a cyber attack made on Christmas Day block access to some customers.

Sony Corp worked for a third day on Saturday to restore services online games PlayStation console (PSN), after a cyber attack made on Christmas Day block access to some customers.

“If you received the PlayStation for Christmas and not able to connect to the network, you should know that this problem is temporary and is not caused by your game console “, said Saturday the executive of Sony Catherine Jensen in a message posted on a company blog.

Jensen said the problems were the result of “high traffic levels designed to interrupt connectivity and online games.”

This was the second recent high-profile attacks against Sony after “hacking” unprecedented study of Hollywood, which Washington has blamed North Korea for the dissemination of the comedy “The Interview”.

Sony spokeswoman Jennifer Clark declined to say how many of the more than 50 million PSN users could not access the network.

A group of hackers known as Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for the interruption of PSN, as well as delays in network service Microsoft Corp’s Xbox, which were quickly resolved.

The group has claimed responsibility for previous previous cyber attacks, including PSN August and early December.

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