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"Many of Sony&amp;#039;s official Playstation websites went down following an apparent DDoS attack threat earlier today. Sites affected included both the US and European Playstation site, Playstation Blog, and PSN store via PC. At the time of writing, only the PSN store via PC still appears to be down. The only official comment from Sony regarding the downtime came courtesy of the @AskPlaystation Twitter account. It read: &amp;quot;PSN currently undergoing sporadic maintenance. Access to the PSN may be interrupted throughout the day. We apologize for any inconvenience.&amp;quot; While the statement may explain why the PSN store via PC site is currently down, it does not explain why other Playstation affiliated sites experienced downtime today. The hacker group known as Anonymous has taken credit for the attack, citing Sony&amp;#039;s continued legal action against George &amp;quot;Geohot&amp;quot; Hotz as the reason for the attack. Sites targeted by Anonymous in the past have experienced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which was the suspected method used to affect service of official Playstation sites today. Sony has been reached for comment, but has not yet responded to our request. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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