PSN having outages - hacker attack?

Some gamers may have noticed that PlayStation Network is down at the moment. The official PlayStation US Blog is telling PS3 owners that they’re working on the problem now:

We’re aware that some of you have been experiencing intermittent service on PSN today. We’re working on finding a solution, and will report back here as soon as it’s resolved.

Thank you for your patience.

G4TV is speculating that this could be a Denial of Service attack on Sony by outraged hackers who have promised retribution for their treatment of George Hotz in their lawsuit. This is just speculation at this point, and there’s no evidence that the intermittent service is due to DOS attacks.

Let us know if you’re having issues with PSN tonight.