PlayStation Network, League of Legends back online after a day of outages due to DDoS attacks

Some corners of the gaming community continue to take their angst into potentially criminal behavior.

Sony’s PlayStation Network, multiplayer online arena battler League of Legends, World of Warcraft publisher Blizzard, and action role-playing game Path of Exile are all back online today after an extended distributed denial of service attack yesterday. This cyberassault had computers from all over the world working together to overload the servers for these games and services. It kept PSN from working for most of Sunday. Sony has dealt with the attack, and it is back online. The company is even cancelling today’s previously scheduled maintenance for its online.