NA PSN has been down for several hours, no sign of recovery, might be linked to DDoS attack

Sony’s Playstation Network in North America has been down for the majority of the day today (January 4th), and there doesn’t seem to be a fix coming soon. The issue might be connected to

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A PSN attacked DDOS and a failure occurred, the next target of a person who names a criminal to Xbox Live - GIGAZINE

Ban for ddos are already happening. : r/Rainbow6

NA PSN has been down for several hours, no sign of recovery, might be linked to DDoS attack

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