Hacker group Phantom Squad launches DDOS attack against Xbox Live
They say history repeats itself and that's certainly the case with hackers and December holidays. Last year the mysterious movement known as Lizard Squad disrupted Xbox Live and PlayStation Network services around Christmas via a DDOS attack and now a similar group called Phantom Squad is doing the same.
Having threatened both Microsoft and Sony's online gaming infrastructures over the past couple of days, the fringe group has now taken credit for stifling Xbox Live, which has just started not working in the last hour or two. For what it's worth, our Wesley Yin-Poole noted his inability to login to Xbox Live about an hour ago, while my service in the States continued to work until only a few minutes ago, so your mileage may vary on this disruption.
Microsoft is aware of the issue and recently offered the following status update on its support site:
from Eurogamer.net http://ift.tt/1QsOJET
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