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A major outage occurred on Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) over the weekend, affecting the service from Friday through Saturday night. The outage lasted more than twenty-four hours and was one of the longest unscheduled outages in recent memory. The PlayStation Store, social features, and account management were among the impacted services, which irritated a lot of users.
Time-sensitive online gaming events, such as Bungie’sDestiny 2competitions andCall of Dutypromotions, were also impacted by the disruption, which forced developers to think about making accommodations for affected players.The greatest source for users looking for real-time PSN status updates is still Sony’s official network status page. The good thing is that the system is now restored and Sony is offering compensation for this inconvenience. But their silence regarding the reason for this outage is pretty concerning.
Sony is trying to overshadow the reason for PlayStation’s outage with a compensation
Sony has announced that PlayStation Plus members will be eligible for an extra five days of service in a recent Twitter post from the official Ask PlayStation account. Some users are pleased with this choice, while others are perplexed as to why they decided on five complimentary days instead of providing an explanation for the initial problem.
Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience. All PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive an additional 5 days of service.
Fans are concerned about the underlying cause of the outage in the first place, even though any kind of compensation for an unanticipated problem is fantastic. However,this outage takes us back to 2011’s dreadful memories. Many players lost their PlayStation 3 profiles as a result of a significant hack that shut down PlayStation services for 24 days back in 2011.
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This is one of the many reasons why users want an explanation for the“operational issue”that occurred, and it has caused some PlayStation fans to lose faith in Sony over time. At that time too, PlayStation compensated the players with free games likeInfamous, but later on, it was revealed how big an attack that was.
During that tense time, over 77 million accounts were compromised, and personal information was stolen, possibly including addresses, credit card numbers, and passwords.
Famous Industry insider believes it was a DDoS attack
A DDoS attack may be the cause of the widespread service outage, according to a post by senior editor Tom Warren of The Verge. Since Sony has not responded formally, it is possible that the PSN issues are related to a significant DDoS attack thattargeted Xbox over Christmas.
without Sony commenting, nobody knows why PSN has been down for 19 hours and counting. But Microsoft did block a “staggering” DDoS attack on Azure Xbox infrastructure over the Christmas holidays, so it’s possible Sony is dealing with something similarpic.twitter.com/0l3gJf04LJ
Even though the issue has been fixed, Sony hasn’t yet disclosed any information about the nature of the outage, and at the moment, the majority of PlayStation’s PSN resources are probably being used to find a quick fix. If a DDoS attack is the cause, Sony obviously failed to block it as successfully as Microsoft.
Even though it might not seem like there would be enough incentive to launch widespread DDoS attacks against online gaming services, the most recent attempt on Xbox shows that it is still very likely. It’s difficult to determine whether a DDoS attack is the cause or if it’s just a copycat attack, but it’s not an outlandish possibility that a group would switch to targeting PSN if Xbox’s security proved to be completely unbreakable.
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Whatever may be the reason, Sony needs to address the issues ASAP as the whole responsibility lies on its shoulders. Millions of people’s sensitive data are stored on the servers of this company, and a potential DDoS attack might compromise each of them.
Nilendu Brahma
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