PlayStation和Xbox遭黑客攻擊

The computer networks for Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation 4 video game consoles were off line for most of Christmas Day, possibly because of an attack by a group of hackers with a history of targeting video games.

聖誕節當天大部分時間，微軟公司的Xbox、索尼公司的PlayStation4電子遊戲平臺的電腦網絡斷線，可能是一羣有攻擊電子遊戲歷史的黑客所致。

The hackers who call themselves the “Lizard Squad” claimed responsibility on Twitter for the shutdown, which essentially rendered the gaming devices unusable, but neither company confirmed the source of its problems. A Microsoft spokesman on Friday said the Xbox network was back up, but he declined to comment on the cause. Press officials for Sony did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

這些自稱“蜥蜴小組”(Lizard Squad)的黑客在Twitter上稱對此次故障負責，它導致遊戲設施無法使用，但兩家公司都沒有證實問題的起因。週五，微軟的一位發言人說，Xbox的網絡恢復了，但他拒絕對起因發表評論。索尼公司的新聞發言人沒有立即迴應要求發表評論的請求。

The attack on the Sony and Microsoft gaming networks comes after a recent hacking of Sony Pictures’ computer network that law enforcement officials have linked to North Korea. There is no current evidence that the game system attack and the earlier hacking are connected.

前不久，索尼影業的電腦網絡遭到攻擊，執法人員認爲朝鮮與此事有關。目前沒有證據表明，這次對遊戲系統的攻擊與那次攻擊有關。

On Thursday, the Lizard Squad claimed to have taken down Sony’s PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, Microsoft’s online game services.

週四，蜥蜴小組聲稱攻破了索尼的PlayStation網絡和微軟的在線遊戲服務Xbox Live。

Gamers complained that they could not use their accounts. Both Sony PlayStation and Xbox Live acknowledged that they were having service problems through their Twitter accounts and service pages. On Twitter, Lizard Squad took credit, claiming that the attacks were its biggest yet.

遊戲玩家們投訴無法使用自己的賬戶。索尼PlayStation和Xbox Live通過Twitter賬戶和服務網頁承認出現故障。蜥蜴小組在Twitter上稱對此事負責，稱這些攻擊是它最大型的攻擊。

Lizard Squad said earlier that it planned to attack the gaming services on Christmas with a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, in which servers are flooded with Internet traffic until they collapse under the load.

之前，蜥蜴小組稱，它計劃採用分佈式拒絕服務攻擊（或稱DDoS）在聖誕節攻擊遊戲服務公司，這種方式會導致服務器用量大增，直至不堪重負而癱瘓。

Lizard Squad appeared to have made good on its threat. Some PlayStation and Xbox users reported issues connecting with servers for the consoles. The support pages for both Sony and Microsoft reported server issues.

蜥蜴小組似乎兌現了自己的威脅。有些PlayStation和Xbox用戶報告了一些與平臺服務器有關的問題。索尼和微軟的技術支持頁面都報告了服務器故障問題。

On Thursday, a man who has had his own brushes with the law appeared to have intervened. Kim Dotcom, the Internet entrepreneur accused of mass copyright theft and a self-proclaimed Xbox gamer, said on Twitter that he had an offer for Lizard Squad: If it stopped attacking the Sony and Microsoft servers, it could receive free access to his new privacy service Dotcom did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The group claiming to be LizardSquad later said it had accepted Mr. Dotcom’s offer and stopped the attacks. Soon after, Xbox’s service went back up, and some PlayStation users reported that their service had been restored. However, the PlayStation Network was still down Friday morning, according to Sony’s support webpage.

週四，一個自己也是一身麻煩的人介入此事。互聯網企業家金姆·多特康姆(Kim Dotcom)曾被指控大量複製盜版。他自稱Xbox玩家，在Twitter上向蜥蜴小組提議：如果該小組停止攻擊索尼和微軟服務器，他們將可以免費獲得他的新隱私服務Mega。金姆·多特康姆沒有馬上回應要求評論的請求。“蜥蜴小組”後來說，它接受了多特康姆的提議，停止了攻擊。不久之後，Xbox的服務恢復了，有些PlayStation用戶報告說，他們的服務也恢復了。不過，索尼公司的技術支持頁面稱，週五早上，PlayStation的網絡仍未恢復。