Sony and PlayStation.com Brought Down By Anon Attack

Didzi · 4 Apr 2011 at 18:55

After claiming that Sony’s lawsuit against George Hotz et al was an attack on free speech, hacking collective Anonymous declared war on Sony. Hoping to seek revenge on the company, Anonymous warned that Sony would soon suffer for their actions. Now, Sony.com and PlayStation.com has fallen to the hackers, with more sites promised to follow.

Speaking on a IRC chat a group of Anonymous are currently attacking several Sony sites. At the moment both Sony.com and PlayStation.com (including the PlayStation Store over PC) are down, presumably due to a DDoS attack – a distributed denial-of-service attack. People involved in the attack, called “OpSony” are asking that hackers “crash all server of sony please”. (Update - Some people can connect to Sony.com, but the site is extremely slow).

Update 2: The PSN is also experiencing intermittent connection issues for numerous gamers.

In a document detailing some members plans for the attack, other sites targeted include sonypictures.co.uk and sony-europe.com, which are currently up.

Several members have also stated that the “Operation isnt over until sony do a press release”.

Sony has yet to comment on the attacks. PlayStation LifeStyle will keep you updated as the situation develops.

Source: http://playstationlifestyle.net/2011/04/04/sony-and-playstation-com-brought-down-by-anon-attack-more-to-follow/

iamtheoneneo · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:02

Piracy is bad kids

james.miller · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:06

yeah great idea bringing the psn down. muppets :rolleyes:

Dyson · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:06

Thought they'd be happy now they had their 'homebrew'.

james.miller · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:09

Dyson said:
Thought they'd be happy now they had their 'homebrew'.

this isnt 'them' any more than those moron 'protesters' who attend marches just to cause trouble and trash stuff. that's what gets my goat, the fact that some renegade ****-wits decide to disrupt everybody whilst pretending they're actually doing this sort of thing for a good cause. they aren't doing this for homebrew, not in any way whatsoever.

Johnnytoxic · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:13

Maybe to protect our rights for what feels like a rented console at the moment.

5punk3monk3y · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:13

iamtheoneneo said:
Piracy is bad kids

what the hell has this got to do with piracy????

james.miller · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:16

Johnnytoxic said:
Maybe to protect our rights for what feels like a rented console at the moment.

oh that rubbish, lol. rented console... i might understand that if all it did was play games.

Soulja · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:51

Whilst I have no sympathy for Sony i don't agree with what they're doing. This isn't going to help the cause. Sony are a bully company and this is just going to get them even more annoyed.

iamtheoneneo · 4 Apr 2011 at 20:01

5punk3monk3y said:
what the hell has this got to do with piracy????

Did you read the article? The whole thing is about the homebrew *cough* piracy issue.

And johnnytoxic - you would have hated owning a console 5 years ago if thats your attitude lmao.