Xbox Live down on Xbox One — cyberattackers take credit again

If you want to cause mayhem for online gaming services, you probably can’t find a better day to attack than Christmas.

Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is down for many people this morning. An alleged group of cyberattackers, known as Lizard Squad, is taking credit for the attack. This is keeping people from playing games online, accessing Xbox.com, and other services of Xbox Live. These kinds of attacks do not necessarily mean that Microsoft’s servers and data are compromised because cyberattacks that take services offline often come in the form of a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) assault that overwhelms a web service with junk data.