A hacker group going by the handle of Lizard Squad today claimed that they had brought down the Sony’s PlayStation Network and many other gaming servers. The gamers are complaining about not being able to log in to the servers.

Sony, yet another large company, but they aren’t spending the waves of cash they obtain on their customers’ PSN service. End the greed.

— Lizard Squad (@LizardSquad) August 24, 2014 As per gaming website ShackNews, Blizzard’s Battle.net servers, Riot’s League of Legends, Grinding Gear Games’ Path of Exile, and PlayStation Network are among those under attack by a group of hackers calling themselves Lizard Squad. Though the claims have not been verified, it is actually true that users cant log on to the PlayStation Network. Blizzard was massively hit with most of its gaming servers that including that of Hearthstone, Diablo 3, World of Warcraft and others were reported down.

As is the case now a days several users took to the social media to vent their frustration. Users were seen complaining about not being able to log into the network.

There is no official word from Sony or the PlayStation Network regarding this outage. Interestingly PlayStation Network was to go in for a scheduled maintenance beginning Monday morning. It may be a case of the engineers misreading the internal maintenance memo and taking down the server for maintenance. As of now the PlayStaion Network has recovered somewhat from the outage even though some are still reporting about not being able to log in.

Routine PSN maintenance Monday 8/25, 9:40am-4:50pm Pacific time: https://t.co/VfsIaF7eAV Log in prior to retain online play/app access

— Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) August 21, 2014

Another interesting fact is that some users reported that they could log in through PS3 but not through PS4 or computers.

So apparently right now as we speak #playstationnetwork has been hacked or compromised.

— GilesWestbrook7 (@GilesWestbrook7) August 24, 2014

On a Sunday afternoon playstation network down! #playstationnetwork

— Michael Tabamo (@MtTabamo) August 24, 2014

#playstationnetwork is down. First time since I’ve owned mine. I’m not sure how I feel.

— Sarah (@seztacular) August 24, 2014

The one morning I get up early to play B4 and PSN is down! #playstationnetwork

— Steve Tourigny (@stevetrules) August 24, 2014

Update : The shares of Sony dropped when this news hit the stock markets. Apparently the traders didnt take kindly to the DDoS news.