Blizzard, PlayStation Network, and more under wide DDoS attack

Gamers woke up to an unpleasant surprise on Sunday morning when hackers brought down Sony's PlayStation Network by way of a distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attack.

The company also confirmed the outage in a blog post, saying that there had been "an attempt to overwhelm our network with artificially high traffic." On the bright side, Sony stated that "no personal information" had been accessed by the attack. A group called Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for the attack. As Inquisitr points out, the group then indicated that the action against Sony's servers wouldn't stop until the U.S. ceased attacks on the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL).