PlayStation websites, PSN suffer outage: Anonymous claims responsibility, Sony claims ‘sporadic maintenance’

Been having trouble with the PlayStation Network or any Sony website today? You’re not alone. A widespread outage that started in Europe last night has now spread to North America, and none other than Anonymous is claiming responsibility for the attacks. As you can see above, however, Sony is singing a slightly different tune, and says simply that “sporadic maintenance” may cause PSN service to be interrupted throughout the day. Because, really, you can never do too much “sporadic” maintenance. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] PlayStation websites, PSN suffer outage: Anonymous claims responsibility, Sony claims ‘sporadic maintenance’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Posted by on April 4, 2011. Filed under News, Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.