The Xbox Live and Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) have apparently suffered hack attacks and continue to be affected on Friday, Dec. 26.

Both online gaming platforms were seemingly targeted by hackers and the two respective companies are working to get things back up and running, but services are still affected for now.

A new report from USA Today points out that both the Xbox Live and the Sony PlayStation Network were down for most of Christmas Day after being hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, and continue to face issues on Friday, Dec. 26.

A group called Lizard Squad has taken credit for the attack on the two networks, and it's the same group that targeted the PlayStation Network and online games World of Warcraft and League of Legends earlier this year, in August.

Sony took to its PlayStation Twitter account to let users know it's aware of the issues and is working on patching things up to resume service after the outages.

"Our engineers are continuing to work hard to resolve the network issues users have experienced today. Thanks for your continued patience!" reads a tweet from Sony PlayStation on Friday, Dec. 26.

The company is looking into the outages and is expected to fix the issues soon, which means that the Sony PlayStation Network should resume activity anytime now.

While both the PSN and the Xbox Live were affected, things are a bit more painful for Sony. Not too long ago, the company was the target of another massive hack reportedly over its release of "The Interview" comedy, which centers around the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony briefly halted the movie's release on Christmas Day following that attack, but has since made it available for home video streaming and limited theatrical release.

The Xbox Live network, meanwhile, is also experiencing "limited" service across its network for now. The Xbox support page notes that core services are up and running, but it has limited access to apps. The company acknowledged the issues and promised to work things out soon so everything can get back to normal.

We'll keep you up to date as soon as more information becomes available, so stay tuned.