Sony Shut Down PSN Due To "External Intrusion"

by **Admin** April 23rd 2011, 7:37 pm

Sony Admits To Being Hacked

Today, Sony had released a statement saying that PSN has been experiencing a "External Intrusion", aka hacked. They have shut PSN down to keep everyone safe. The official statement reads:

An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. In order to conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward, we turned off PlayStation Network & Qriocity services on the evening of Wednesday, April 20th. Providing quality entertainment services to our customers and partners is our utmost priority. We are doing all we can to resolve this situation quickly, and we once again thank you for your patience. We will continue to update you promptly as we have additional information to share. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

And of course, because of the past events from the group, many thought that Anonymous has been behind the attack. Well, the also released a statement saying they didn't do it.

For Once We Didn’t Do It
Sony’s Playstation Network, its online service for Playstation 3 and its Playstation Portable consoles, suffered from a major outage today; which is on going as of this writting. According to Son’ys blog, the interruption in service may last into the long weekend – for at least another “full day or two”. Sony released a statement through its EU blog, saying that the network outage may be a result of “targeted behaviour by an outside party”, brining in the possibility of cyberattacks. Adding to the confusion is the fact that the message has since been removed.
While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves AnonOps wa not related to this incident and takes no responsiblity for it. A more likely explination is that Sony is taking advantage of Anonymous’ previous ill-will towards the company to distract users from the fact the outage is accutally an internal problem with the companies servers.
TLR
Sony is incompetent. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]