Xbox One Gamers Unable To Log Into Xbox Live As It Suffers Outage Anonymous Member Claims Responsibility

Xbox Live servers knocked down offline since yesterday; Anonymous claims responsibilityAnonymous responsible?

Many of the users have taken to Facebook and Twitter to vent their fury about the unavailability of Xbox Live service.  Microsoft on its part has issued a statement which reads Attack of the Fanboy says that the Xbox Live started facing problems with login at around 5pm ET, with both Xbox 360 and Xbox One down. Since then the Xbox 360 seems to have improved, but Xbox One is still having issues.

Anonymous responsible?

A Twitter Account belonging to an Anonymous hacktivist member group has claimed that it was responsible for the attack and as of now owned 80% of Xbox Live servers.  The Twitter handle @occupythemob tweeted alleged in support of hashtag #BlackLivesMatter,

— Anonymous (@AnonyMobLive) January 29, 2015 Other than the above statement, Microsoft has not given any official reason has been given for the current outage.  Xbox Live was previously knocked out of service during the Christmas holidays by the infamous hacker group, Lizard Squad.