The Playstation Network is still down and doesn’t look to be getting back on anytime soon. With many gamers very annoyed by the service disruption in what undoubtedly would have been a very active Easter weekend of gaming, especially with the releases of Portal 2, Mortal Kombat and SOCOM 4 happening this week, Sony definitely doesn’t look to be in a good situation right now.
Sony claims that the shutdown was intentional to protect security and investigate the intrusions due to hackers getting into the network. With their big feud still going on, internet group Anonymous has stepped forward to respond to accusations that it was them.
In a surprising turn of events, though, the group, the prime suspect in this case, have said that they aren’t responsible for the hacking but that they will continue their efforts once PSN is operational. In a press release made yesterday, Anonymous said that while members of their group may be behind the hacking, the official AnonOps were not the ones to do the deed. They also cast suspicion on the claim as a whole, bringing up the possibility that the whole shutdown is actually an internal problem and they’re just blaming it on hackers rather than taking responsibility themselves.
While that certainly could be the case, Anonymous’s claim should be taken with a grain of salt, especially when they couldn’t resist slipping in a potshot at Sony, flat out calling them “incompetent.” Still, if they were the ones responsible, it’s assumed that they would have no problem admitting as much, since their conflict with Sony is well-known and this would give them some legitimacy.
Whether you agree or disagree with Anon’s stance on the whole Sony VS GeoHot situation, whoever is responsible for this (if anyone is) seems to have gone about a rather strange way of proving it. After all, hacking into Sony computers and causing them to shut down PSN doesn’t really do any damage to them, aside from reputation. The people actually affected by this are the gamers on the sidelines, just wanting to play some games with people they know that aren’t in the immediate area. It seems rather counter-intuitive to punish the gamers that the hacker(s) are claiming to be speaking for.
What do you think? Did Sony make the right call in shutting down PSN? Is Anonymous innocent in all of this? Is there really some hacker messing around with Sony computers?
Keep your eyes open as we’ll continue to update you as information comes.
Source: SystemLink
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Maybe its someone that works there. But everything can be hacked so this doesn’t make any system more superior than any other. Due to this reason
I think that Anon is completely responsible for the attacks on PSN. Honestly, doesn’t it seem a bit too coincidental. Some GeoHots’ tries to JailBreak a PS3, get arrested, then a couple days later PlayStation Network goes down with no warning? There’s something wrong there. First of all, if you’re trying to disprove involvement with a crime, you never use biased language. Second, Sony gave no warning as to whether they would or wouldn’t be going under maintenance and there was no maintenance warning before the shutdown, but a simple error message. I have a friend who’s Playstation 3 console shut off in a very strange manner. Anon is nothing but a internet gang. They look for revenge if they are denied what they want and ruthlessly attack their rivals until they’re satisfied or the enemy’s in ruins. Yes it may seem contradictory that they speak in turn of fellow gamers then deny them the right to play but isn’t that what all gangs do? They speak out for their “kin” and “brethren” of race or culture, then turn around and destroy everything in their path, including their “brothers”. After all, equipment is needed for high-tech hacking. If you truly wanted what Sony has to offer, you could have easily taken the $100′s you spent on JailBreaking the system, and simply take $60 out of it to buy a temporary video game, or better yet, register for a Gamefly acccount!!! It’s simple, and if you can’t afford it, then you can’t afford it!!!!!!
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issac,
your argument would probably carry a *little* weight if you had started off with the correct facts. GeoHot had charges brought against him and he did have to go to court to settle things. That was like a month and a half ago. The settlement that GeoHot and Sony came too was publicized about 2 weeks ago, and immediately following that there was a DDOS attack against PSN. Next time, google before you start spewing things like they are fact.
Thank you smarterthanissac lmao. Cause really issac is just throwing out his opinion instead of stating hard facts like I was.
Isaac you know nothing. Sony is actually starting to regret going after george hotz. This whole problem is based around the geohot lawsuit. And sony did not win the lawsuit, hints why they came to a settlement so early, because sony knew something bad would happen. And plus they had a feeling they would lose. When they try to sue someone they always want the case to be in northern Cal. where the company is, and sony are “buddies” with the judge there. Thats why george hotz wanted it to be in his home state so he would have a good chance in winning.
Im glad Sony was hacked, even though I am a loayl ps3 owner, im still glad. Because WE the owners of our product should be able to do whatever we want with our ps3, we bought it, we own it, we can do whatever we want with it, including hacking it. Which I miss dearly on mw2. Ya I hacked mw2. So you going to report me to sony now? But whats sony gonna do? Sue me too? lmao. Because for 1 they dont have proof that I did or not, only my word. People are praising sony for doing the “right” thing when they were suing george hotz, when really sony broke the law too, and most of the people like you for example dont even realize it because there too busy prasing sony. During the lawsuit Sony violated the 1st amendment in 2 ways. 1. Invasion of privacy. 2. Freedom of speech. And also violated the Free flow of Information Act. So you gonna praise sony now?
Now anyone who owns a ps3, can sue sony. For carelessly protecting private information. Theres already a guy from alabama suing sony for lack of protecting, encrypting, and securing the private and sensitive data of its users. Especially Credit card numbers.
So ya, sony is starting to regret going after george hotz. Because they knew it would come back to haunt them. Its funny cause sony said several years ago that the ps3 was unhackable, and now look, its hacked, even the company itself. Tisk tisk sony. Think before you say something.
this needs to be fixed i actually support SOME OF THE anonymous actions and idc if there to blame but psn needs to HURRY UP and fix this !! >:|
Its not bloody good enough Sony who the heck do you think u are. Of all the times to shut down its over a major weekend when everyone wants to have a time off and enjoy some online gaming. We have spent billions on your products and you cant even provide a consistant service. Get your act together…. Xbox is looking good nothing but trouble with PS3 CDO for ever being logged out and now just shut all together. sad very sad. Im sure the big owners are sipping cotails in the pacific somewhere. work it out and quick
It’s still down, meaning they missed out for the ENTIRE Easter weekend… horrible timing with SOCOM 4 and exclusive Portal 2/Mortal Kombat content.
This total bs man like what the he’ll Sony u guys are getting hacked I mean u guys built the ps3 ud think u could save it…. Bull man… Bullllllllll…….
well xbox 360 is looking good right now i’ll give you one more day then thats it i miss zombies online but all i no is ps1,ps2 and ps3. Sony when i awake on april,25,2011 don’t disappoint me
sony respond to anonymous so we can play
PLZ TURN PSN ON SO WE CAN PLAY, 19 YEAR KID SHUTS DOWN MILLION $ COMPANY(SAD =I)
This is really dumb. How does anonymous respond to anything?
I am hating this outage. I am not a multiplayer fan but I have now been made painfully aware that I rely on my PSN connection for other things like updates for games, syncing trophies (especially since I have become somewhat of a trophy whore), comparing trophies with friends & competitors, & just being able to every so often kick someone around, other than the computer, on Super Street Fighter IV.
While the outage hasn’t affected my playing as much (I have been able to play all of my single player games) I am concerned that my trophy progress may be a somewhat fragile thing, if left un-synced. (My own bit of neurosis there).
Here’s a real concern though, what about our Credit Card or Debit Card info on their servers? Are we at risk? WE NEED ANSWERS!
Shut up and go play Single Player games
PSN will revive soon
Triple Like. People needa stop bitchin damn.
Don’t own a PS3 but you know even if they were up soon still people’s money is a serious thing and if you don’t care if your credit/debit card get’s it’s info stolen and soon you are now a new owner of like 30 yacht’s no clue where they are and you end up being in the hole…. Do not come crying for attention and help to pay it off, I would be just as worried.
And that’s why I dont post my credit card <3
Thats why you dont put your credit card info on it bud. And even if I did I would just hand the bill over to sony to pay, not me, because their the ones who didnt protect my personal info, and possible violation of law of not securing all personal info of all its users. And to add on top of that a U.S. senator Richard Blumenthal told sony to give its customers free credit report checks for 2 years, and affected individuals sufficient insurance for possible identity theft. So if my credit card info was on it and was used, thats a GUARANTEE win for me suing sony. Thats the part your forgetting.
It’s turned into politics.
The only people who get hurt in politics are the general public.
This isn’t regular people sticking it to The Man, this is two sides in what is effectively a war. Neither side will be hurt by this ‘battle’ as a collective, although there’s always the possibility of some hackers getting caught and losing out personally on freedom, money and/or future careers for the sake of this.
Such is politics…
Politics indeed.
But actually one side will be hurt by this battle. And its sony. Its already been said that sony would be bleeding billions of dollars because of this hack. And on top of that sony already has a lawsuit against them, the first one from a guy in alabama, but will not be the last that will be filed against sony. Politics are already looking into if sony violated the Data protection Act, which they pretty much did.
i think its dumb if someone did hack playstation network and thats why they shut down why punish us the people who just want to play games i got on about a week ago and thats when it was messing up i also heard that playstation network and xbox live was joining together so we could play with people on xbox
Playstation network will never join xbox live. Because microsoft requires all its games to use 1 specific port for all its games, playstation doesnt require a specific port. And plus rivals wont do that. Its like saying coke and pepsi are going to combine its products, which will never happen.
You can play with people on PC and PS3 on Lost Planet Multiplayer but other then that I don’t see them ever going online together. and for Sony shutting it down was for a security attempt which didn’t work out to well as the hackers still got people’s info
look its not just one group responsible its both sides of the fence throwing blame. its both sonys fault for not having better security and whoever crippled their systems. i dont like whats happening but it will all come to light when every one figures out whos behind this. and i will say this also whoever hacks something for a living has no life. just my opinion