Sony compensates users for PSN downtime around Christmas

Sony will compensate PlayStation users for PSN downtime around Christmas. PlayStation Plus users get five days free, while all PSN users get a 10 percent discount on their next digital purchases, the manufacturer reports.

Sony calls the compensation “an appreciation for the patience” of users, but makes no apologies in the report. PSN’s servers, like Xbox Live’s, went down after a DDoS attack during the Christmas season.

Users of payment service PlayStation Plus get five days for free from Sony, approximately the same as the period in which the malfunction occurred. All PSN users also receive a code, which they use to receive a one-time 10 percent discount on purchases such as games, films and series on PSN.

On Thursday it appeared that members of the hacker group Lizard Squad had been arrested. That group would have been behind the attacks.