Report: PSN and Xbox Live down after DDoS attack

Bummer

I’m currently away from my consoles so I can’t confirm this myself, but word on the street is that PSN and Xbox Live are both inaccessible. They’ve apparently been down off-and-on since last night. Business Insider reports that this “downtime” is a result of an attack from some group of bored internet people that like to annoy others in order to create the illusion that they have some power and/or purpose in this world.

Good luck with that, annoying internet people. Definitely update us in a few years to let us know how much better you feel about yourself and the world you live in, knowing that your primary effect on the human race has been make a lot of people’s lives slightly worse. 

Of course, it could be that the platforms are down due to routine maintenance and/or a big
Holiday uptick in traffic. That’s the thing about doing crimes on the internet for bragging rights: unless you’re willing to prove that it’s really you that did those crimes, there is really no way to believably establish your brag. Everybody knows the only way to credibly claim responsibility for a DDoS is make your full name, location, IP address, social security number, and bank account information public to the internet. 

I hereby challenge the purported parties responsible for this attack to make that information public posthaste. Time to prove that you really are the smoothest criminals in all of internet land, if you dare.