People who received a new Xbox One or PS4 for Christmas and hoped to play online are likely having problems today.
Both Xbox Live and Playstation Network have been experiencing outages throughout Thursday. A hacking group called Lizard Squad is taking credit for the denial of service attacks and is constantly posting tweets about the problems, asking users for retweets in exchange for stopping the hacks. Earlier this month, Lizard Squad had previously warned that it would hit both networks on Christmas.
We're aware that some users are having issues logging into PSN – engineers are investigating
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) December 25, 2014
We're aware users are having issues logging into XBL & are actively working to resolve. Please visit http://t.co/99xfLNN0o8 for updates ^JX
— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport) December 25, 2014
