Sony recently acknowledged that its PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network had been taken offline due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, stating that the networks had been “impacted by an attempt to overwhelm our network with articifically high traffic.”

“We are under attack by a large scale DDoS,” Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley tweeted at 4:59 a.m. on August 24, 2014. “Being dealt with but it will impact games until [it’s] handled.”

Soon after, the company announced that the networks were back online, stating, “We have seen no evidence of any intrusion to the network and no evidence of any unauthorized access to users’ personal information.”

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