Update:

Allegedly, a group entitled LizardSquad has taken full responsibility for the DDOS attack from today. ShackNews is also reporting that several other services were taken down, including Battle.net, League of Legends, and Path of Exile.

Original Story:

It seems that PlayStation Network, Sony’s service for online games across all PS platforms, is down once again. It’s not the first time the service is not working properly in the past few days, after several rumors stated that PSN was DDoSed.

We will be updating you on the go, as Sony might release an official statement. Be sure to check this post again to find out when you can start playing online games again on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita.

This comes as bad news for gamers, since it’s not the first time in this month when the service is unavailable. Keep in mind that this could also be related to the upcoming maintenance.

and how exactly is attacking gamers going to stop certain governments from fighting a war?

This is the first I heard of this. I was reading there Twitter account and they claim that they did it because psn doesn't spend our premiums on protecting and puts the money in there own pocket.
New I should of bought an Xbox one instead on ps4. Never had to deal with this on the Xbox, inb4 a repeat of a few years ago when psn was knocked off for 3-4 months.

nah these guys aren't good at least 1 of them has already been caught

http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/24/6062499/playstation-network-hack-attack

god damn it Sony

That's what those #isis tags are for.

good hope he makes a deal to get less jail time

they taking every game down i play

for you that just means rs

Is it true you can't play TLoU single player when the servers are down?

<takes noose off> i was able to sign in, that was a scary 7 hours