When Will the PlayStation Network be back up and running in at all. What group could have done this?
Sony's PlayStation Network being down, entered into a fourth-day. Alot of reports indicate a Cyber attack may be at fault by a group called Anonymous.
It's been recently released, Anonymous. Claims they are not responsible for this act.
Anonymous claims they are NOT responsible for the recent hack into the PlayStation Network some four days ago.
Patrick Seybold, Sony's senior director of corporate communications and social media, released an online post apologizing for the outage, and admitting the breach of security.
He said: 'An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network.
'We are doing all we can to resolve this situation quickly, and we once again thank you for your patience.'
PCWorld's Keir Thomas said the phrasing Sony used - talking of an 'external intrusion' - indicated that the attack wasn't a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which is one of Anonymous's most popular weapons.
He wrote: 'Instead, this seems to be an individual breaking into the network and this is probably why it's taking so long to clean-up - Sony has to trace every corner of their systems affected by the hacker and repair it or restore files.'
The group said that the mishap was due to internal issues with Sony's own servers, and those fingering Anonymous were "taking advantage of Anonymous' previous ill-will towards the company." A message to the company's PlayStation blog in Europe had said that Sony was investigating "the possibility of targeted behavior by an outside party," but since had been removed.
"Sony is incompetent... While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves AnonOps was not related to this incident and takes no responsibility for it," Anonymous wrote in a public statement.
Sony has provided little information on what may have caused the outage other than acknowledging issues beginning on Wednesday evening, and saying in a status update on Thursday that the issue could extend through the weekend. Either way, the complication cripples the gaming console for many.
Console applications like Netflix, MLB.tv, and others require a PSN login in order to function, and now are inoperable. This week also saw several highly anticipated games, with online play, released -- Mortal Kombat and SOCOM 4 to name two -- and the latter heavily leans on the PSN and online game play.
+ leukoplast on April 22nd, 2011 at 12:13 am said:
I just hope Sony doesn’t use this as an excuse to start charging for PSN access.
Obviously, PS3 owners are not happy, criticizing the company's silence on the cause, and slowness in getting it fixed. "SONY needs better engineers to secure the PSN,"user 'Moeeed' wrote in the PlayStation Blog.
Sony's PlayStation Network being down, entered into a fourth-day. Alot of reports indicate a Cyber attack may be at fault by a group called Anonymous.
It's been recently released, Anonymous. Claims they are not responsible for this act.
Anonymous claims they are NOT responsible for the recent hack into the PlayStation Network some four days ago.Patrick Seybold, Sony's senior director of corporate communications and social media, released an online post apologizing for the outage, and admitting the breach of security.
He said: 'An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network.
'We are doing all we can to resolve this situation quickly, and we once again thank you for your patience.'
PCWorld's Keir Thomas said the phrasing Sony used - talking of an 'external intrusion' - indicated that the attack wasn't a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which is one of Anonymous's most popular weapons.
He wrote: 'Instead, this seems to be an individual breaking into the network and this is probably why it's taking so long to clean-up - Sony has to trace every corner of their systems affected by the hacker and repair it or restore files.'
"Sony is incompetent... While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves AnonOps was not related to this incident and takes no responsibility for it," Anonymous wrote in a public statement.
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Console applications like Netflix, MLB.tv, and others require a PSN login in order to function, and now are inoperable. This week also saw several highly anticipated games, with online play, released -- Mortal Kombat and SOCOM 4 to name two -- and the latter heavily leans on the PSN and online game play.
+ leukoplast on April 22nd, 2011 at 12:13 am said:
I just hope Sony doesn’t use this as an excuse to start charging for PSN access.
Obviously, PS3 owners are not happy, criticizing the company's silence on the cause, and slowness in getting it fixed. "SONY needs better engineers to secure the PSN,"user 'Moeeed' wrote in the PlayStation Blog.
