Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2025
PlayStation Network has been down for almost a day all over the world, Sony confirmed it is aware of the global outage, but has yet to provide technical info about the issue.
Many users reported issues with the PlayStation Network services at around 11 pm on Thursday.
“We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN,” reads a post published by PlayStation on X.
We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN.
— Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) February 8, 2025
For more details: https://t.co/NJX2xGusZM
After more than 24 hours, almost every online service is still facing issues, according to the status page.
Account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video and the PlayStation store are experiencing issues.
Some experts suspect that the root cause of the issues could be a cyber attack. Below are the posts of the security researcher Dominic Alvieri who also highlighted a disturbing trend:
PlayStation breach looks more likely
— Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) February 8, 2025
Sony’s PlayStation indicators of a compromise are starting to add up and last 3 times these IoCs were present there was data compromised.
> Not related to SN Systems integration
— — — Currently:
Secure payment systems servers down*
PS5,… pic.twitter.com/x1a5E8BW6x
PlayStation cloud hosting providers pic.twitter.com/aJjj6RX9zo
— Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) February 8, 2025
PlayStation Network has faced major outages in the past, notably in 2011 when a hack compromised user data and forced a 23-day shutdown. The PSN breach exposed the data of millions of users, costing Sony $15 million in settlements and a year of identity theft protection for subscribers.
Updated February 9, 2025
According to the status page, all services are up and running.
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