NA PSN has been down for several hours, no sign of recovery, might be linked to DDoS attack

Sony’s Playstation Network in North America has been down for the majority of the day today (January 4th), and there doesn’t seem to be a fix coming soon. The issue might be connected to

ModernWarzone on X: Seems like a targeted DDOS attack hit BattleNet servers about 30 minutes ago and caused everyone to be kicked off. BattleNet has faced an unprecedented number of DDOS attacks

PSN status down - PS4 PlayStation Network Hacked? Possible Ddos attack on Sony? - Daily Star

Denial of Service DDoS attack - GeeksforGeeks

Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) Goes Down

Attackers Exploited R1Soft Server Backup Manager Vulnerability to Deploy Backdoor

PSN status down - PS4 PlayStation Network Hacked? Possible Ddos attack on Sony? - Daily Star

PlayStation Network's 24 days of downtime, 10 Years Ago This Month

Is it possible to do a DDos attack and kick someone off Xbox live (my friend threatened to do this by using stress them and I didn't believe him)? - Quora

PlayStation Network Breaches (PSN Hacks)

A PSN attacked DDOS and a failure occurred, the next target of a person who names a criminal to Xbox Live - GIGAZINE