Hackers Take Down Sony and PlayStation.com, PSN Goes Offline

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Hackers have taken down Sony and PlayStation.com which has consequently taken the PlayStation Network offline.

Speaking on an IRC chat a group of hackers, who are known as Anonymous, have successfully taken down several Sony-owned websites. One of which is PlayStation.com as well as Sony.com (although the site is slowly coming back). The attack is caused via a DDoS attack which is a distributed denial-of-service attack.

Also, the PlayStation Network is experiencing connection issues for PS3 owners. Sony tweeted:

• PSN currently undergoing sporadic maintenance. Access to the PSN may be interrupted throughout the day. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The hackers stated that the attacks won’t stop until “sony do a press release”.

The hacker’s actions are due to a war on Sony they declared yesterday. The hackers said:

• Congratulations, Sony. You now have now received the undivided attention of Anonymous. Your recent legal action against our follow hackers, Geohot and Graf_Chokolo, has not only alarmed us, it has been deemed wholly unforgivable.”
  
  You have now abused the judicial system in an attempt to censor information on how your products work. You have victimised your own customers merely for possessing and sharing information, and continue to target every person who seeks this information. In doing so you have violated the privacy of thousands. This is the information they were willing to teach the world for free. The very same information you wish to suppress for sake of corporate greed and complete control of the users.
  
  Now you will experience the wrath of Anonymous. You saw a hornets nest, and stuck your p*nises in it. You must face the consequences of your actions, Anonymous style.
  
  Knowledge is Free. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not Forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

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lmfao we r getting stung again looooooll knew theses guys had somthing to do w my psn being fked for the last week -_- and here it is
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/04/21/update-on-psn-service-outages/

Posted on 21 April by James Gallagher – Blog Manager, SCEE
Update on PSN Service OutagesCountries: AE, AU, GB, IE, NZ

As you are no doubt aware, the current emergency outage is continuing this afternoon and all Sony Online Network services remain unavailable. Our support teams are investigating the cause of the problem, including the possibility of targeted behaviour by an outside party. If the reported Network problems are indeed caused by such acts, we would like to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service.

Our engineers are continuing to work to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customers’ continued support. For further information, please refer to updates on PlayStation.com, here on PlayStation.Blog and via our @PlayStationEU twitter feed.

ok sony screwed up lmao but forrealjust report u f'''ed up and save us the headaches sonythats all annoyance wanted any way read thier demands geeez omg sick of this crap

well eat your own sony fuck with hackers you so going be sorry :p

Smh. This hacker vs sony war is starting to annoy me! Now we're being affected a lot more

and i thought the reason for world war 3 was gonna be some sort of nuclear strike. guess i was wrong...

The thing people seem to not understand is that, in the end, this *doesn't* hurt Sony.

I'll also add that I seriously doubt that this is the result of a malicious attack. That SCEE post reeks of "we're not sure but we're just gonna post shit so the community hears us", and I'd wager whoever approved that gets axed.

You wanna touch Sony you have to move away from SCEI, and into their electronics.



If you block their PSN and their forums, but leave their PS3s in a non-jailbroken firmware with three of the Spring's most anticipated physical media releases dropping?

Anyone smart enough to cripple a global network is smart enough to know that doing it now wont make Sony bat a single eyelash.

If you think hard about this, this doesn't seem like a malicious attack, at all.

Just my 2 cents, though.

Im pretty sure Anonymous is back to laughing at Immature, Lame dragonball-z jokes and making up stupid internet Memes on 4chan.org again now that GeoHot got owned by Sony.

Their 15 minutes of fame are over.

They have mentioned that they will attack again once PSN is back up. but they are saying that they had nothing to do with this current situation. (from their IRC channel)

I agree with Stre. Losing revenue with electronics would be something they would be more worried about. This little hiccup in the Global Network is hardly anything they would really lose sleep over. It's the members of the network trying to go online having titty attacks though it's hardly malicious towards Sony. What ever the case, it still sucks major balls. Peeps wanna get online! Hopefully it comes back up soon. They're starting to e-riot.

so we gonna boycot sony products or what lmao joking but one thing i dont get why they start 1.5 knowing all bugs werent out of it geez that suxed yesterday when my ps said harddrive was corrupted omg i was scared i lost my ps really omg but it reset what i dont know it works nothing was missing i dont know wth the problem was

Lol @ people having a nervous breakdown because they can't get online. Get outside and taste the air! ;P Dont mind me, im' just posting for the hell of it. I was finally able to join today.. In regards to the whole Anonymous situation. I think its just a bunch of nerds trying to make some form of significance in their livez. I mean what's the point anyway/ It's just a joke Lulz.

@beloved not freaking out dont care but i didnt want to lose my saved files geez anyway i just wish sony amit they are wrong in this matter anyway gonna play wii better then ps anyway get to move around and have fun may just break out my old nintendo and play supermario brothers or contra or hum sega genius sonic calling my name screw psn u taken to long to fix this problem oh well email me if u ever fix ur screw up

same places it still cold outside and still raining >< so i wanted play psn on my day off and it down gets me ticked off

yes it cold and rainy here to so we been playing wii fit and daddy aka tommy been watching movies on crackle lol