Several Sony websites were offline on Wednesday only days after the Anonymous hacker group threatened to target the company over its lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz.

The main Sony site, as well as the Sony Style.com site and the PlayStation US site, which has information on the PlayStation 3, were down as of midday, but seem to have loading intermittently.

"We are currently investigating, including the possibility of targeted behaviour of an outside party," Sony said in a statement. "If this is indeed caused by such an act, we want to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service. Our engineers are working to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customers' continued support."

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