Xbox Live & PlayStation Network Hacked, Go Down Day After Christmas - Twitter Reacts

After Sony had a strange hacking occurrence earlier this month, it looks like another form of entertainment has fallen victim to the mysterious strain of hackers out there. The online video gaming networks Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, which correspond with their respective consoles, were down earlier this morning, with a group of hackers taking credit for the crash. While Xbox Live is back up and running as of this afternoon, PlayStation Network is still down, which is pretty unfortunate for post-Christmas gaming.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony's PlayStation support team released as statement regarding the problems.

"We are aware that some users are experiencing difficulty logging into the PSN," the support site's message stated. "We will update this article with any changes that occur in regards to this issue. Thank you for your patience."

We're aware that some users are having issues logging into PSN - engineers are investigating

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) December 25, 2014

Microsoft posted a similar message:

We're aware users are having issues logging into XBL & are actively working to resolve. Please visit https://t.co/99xfLNN0o8 for updates ^JX — Xbox Support (1-5) (@XboxSupport) December 25, 2014

Apparently, the hacker group "Lizard Squad" took credit for the outages on Twitter, but soon deleted the Tweet that claimed they were responsible.

10,000 [retweets] and we will stop smacking #Xbox and #PSN offline," the deleted post read.

What do you think of this news? Are you still waiting for PSN to get back up and running? Let us know in the comments section below!

You can check out some Twitter reactions to the downed networks and supposed hacking cause right here:

Playstation network is really pissing me off

— #HennyDisciple (@WJL1691) December 26, 2014

I want to play the crew so bad but Playstation Network I still down!! :,( @PlayStationUK @AskPlayStation @PlayStationEU @PlayStation — Robson (@robsonjd33) December 26, 2014

Forever waiting for the playstation network to be back online. Atleast Netflix still works

— Zachary Douchebag ⚓️ (@ZacDouchebag) December 26, 2014

Playstation Network Trippin — Coach (@HeadHunter_8) December 26, 2014

PlayStation network being hacked ruined my Christmas

— Justin H. (@JustinHenriquez) December 26, 2014