Washington.-The websites of the PlayStation and Xbox consoles, yesterday experienced problems and outages due to alleged cyber attacks after the release of the controversial film “The Interview” in separate rooms United States.
Meanwhile, North Korea on Saturday accused the US of being responsible for internet outages experienced in recent days amid a dispute between the two countries for a cyber attack against Sony Pictures movie studio, producer of “The Interview” .
PlayStation (Sony) and its competitor Xbox (Microsoft) had difficulty connecting to the servers of the two consoles for Christmas Day, one of the busiest of the year. Yesterday, an Xbox worked for a few hours and the n partially normalized, while the PlayStation still locked. Both Sony and Microsoft reported problems denial of service, but none of the two companies attributed so far, what happened to a cyberattack.
However, a group of hackers calling itself Lizard Squad claimed the attacks.
On November 24, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) suffered a cyber attack that the US government attaches to North Korea and believes it was in response to the film “The Interview”, a comedy of Seth Rogen and James Franco tells a plot US to assassinate the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Pyongyang denied the allegations and today the National Defense Commission said the US was behind the disruption of internet services that suffered this week. Agencies
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