Further details will be provided in the following days

Dec 29, 2014 05:36 GMT  ·  By

PlayStation owners had one of the ugliest Christmases if they were planning to play their favorite game on their PS3 or PS4. As many of you probably know by now, both PlayStation Network and Xbox Live services were under attack for more than 12 hours on Christmas day.

A group calling itself Lizard Squad warned Sony and Microsoft earlier this month that they should prepare for that kind of attack on Christmas day, but it looks like both companies were caught unprepared and console players haven't been able to log in to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network for quite a long time.

The salvation came from someone that would have not expected, as Kim Dotcom managed to convince Lizard Squad to stop the attacks on both services in exchange for some Mega Privacy vouchers.

Although the attacks stopped and Xbox Live services came back online soon afterwards, it took Sony more than 48 hours to restore PlayStation Network.

During and in the aftermath of the DDoS attacks, Sony issued a short message confirming the problems, but avoiding any details on the cause.

“The video game industry has been experiencing high levels of traffic designed to disrupt connectivity and online gameplay. Multiple networks, including PSN, have been affected over the last 48 hours. PSN engineers are working hard to restore full network access and online gameplay as quickly as possible.”

It took Sony more than 48 hours to put the services back online

On December 28, Sony managed to stabilize PlayStation Network and allow most of console owners to take advantage of its services. The Japanese company confirmed PSN was attacked along with other services, but has finally managed to put everything back online.

“PlayStation Network is back online. As you probably know, PlayStation Network and some other gaming services were attacked over the holidays with artificially high levels of traffic designed to disrupt connectivity and online gameplay. This may have prevented your access to the network and its services over the last few days.”

Now everyone is thinking that Sony should offer those who paid for PlayStation Plus some kind of compensation for the time they were unable to use PlayStation Network services. This might come in the form of additional PS+ time or perhaps some free stuff.

Sony is still mum on the matter, but we will find out more when a decision is made, probably after the New Year's Eve. How is your PlayStation Network now? Did you manage to log in yet?