The Sony PlayStation Network is down, it is the first major issue suffered on a global scale in 2016. Sony acknowledges the problems. The network was experiencing issues and its status page showed that the problems were affecting all of its major services, the company hasnt provided further details on the problem. Last year hackers took down the online networks of both Microsoft Xbox Live and PlayStation network (PSN) highlighting security issues affecting the services of both Sony and Microsoft.”]
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