Updated (01:08 am): The issues have now been fixed and the PlayStation Network is back to normal. At the moment Sony has not made any statement about the reasons for this drop that has lasted a few hours.
It is possible that during this afternoon you have decided to connect to the PlayStation Network with one of your consoles and have verified that it is impossible. The reason is because the servers have suffered a global crash .
It is not a question of maintenance, since in such a case Sony would have warned of it. On the other hand, accounts like Ask PlayStation are already communicating that indeed the servers are currently experiencing problems when trying to access them.
We’re aware that some users are experiencing issues logging into PSN. Thank you for your patience as we investigate: https://t.co/s026QGzJZr
— Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation)
From the next page you can check the status of the different Sony services , where you can see that it has affected all of them, both on PS Vita, as on PS3, PS4 or Internet browsers. At the moment he invites us to be aware of that same page to review the situation of the servers.
Likewise , the cause that has caused this fall is unknown, so we will update the news as soon as there is any news in this regard.