Bad day for Sony

[Karma]

https://playstationlifestyle.net/20...m-brought-down-by-anon-attack-more-to-follow/

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. (Sony have said that the “PSN currently undergoing sporadic maintenance. Access to the PSN may be interrupted throughout the day. We apologize for any inconvenience.”)

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”.

Update 3: Anonymous have released a video here.

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

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

somebody is pissed

 

[devilof76]

Hackers can suck it.

 

[POWER1010]

i had no idea this was going on, what the heck happened?

 

[Solidus]

This is a perfect example of why you DO NOT want to make Internet people angry. Sony should have learned from what happened to Boxxy and that kid on YouTube who was in love with Justin Bieber.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Hackers ruin it for everyone.

 

[Batty]

Hackers ruin it for everyone.

 

[sprig0701]

Boy, someone didn't get what they wanted and are throwing a huge hissy fit. That's as cowardice as keying someone's car while they're sleeping.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Batty, you need to lose some weight

 

[NosferatuBill36]

Time to delete my credit card info from PSN.

Uh...how the hell do you do that?

 

[Darklord Dave]

Summary: The Sony PS3 console was "hacked" or more appropriately, jailbroken, by iPhone hacker, Geohot.
He managed to reverse engineer his own Playstation 3 to run homebrew applications on it.
And then later released the method to the public, through his site, geohot.com
Sony hit him with a lawsuit and demanded social media sites, including YouTube to hand over IP addresses of people who visited Geohot's social pages/videos.
Paypal have granted access to Sony for them to view Geohot's PayPal account.
The judge of the case has given permission to Sony to view the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com
Sony are also after another group of hackers for the same case.
The PS3 hack which GeoHot released can be compared to the "unlocking" of a phone.
i.e. Once you purchase the phone, it's yours, you can do whatever it is you want with it.

Lawsuit Timeline:
January 11, 2011 - Sony sues GeoHot and others, on 8 claims, including violation of the DMCA, computer fraud, and copyright infringement.
January 27, 2011 - Sony's request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) was granted by the US District Court for the Northern District of California. This forbade him from distributing the jailbreak, helping or encouraging others to jailbreak, and distributing information they've learned during the creation of the jailbreak. It also ordered him to turn over computers and storage media used in the creation of the jailbreak to Sony's lawyers.
March 6, 2011 - The court issued an approval that Sony's lawyers were allowed access to all the IP addresses of all the people who visited geohot's blog

I don't know - this is pretty big brother of Sony and the courts. A DDoS of a limited time is a pretty reasonable protest for such overwhelming infringement of civil rights.

 

[Timinator]

I don't know - this is pretty big brother of Sony and the courts. A DDoS of a limited time is a pretty reasonable protest for such overwhelming infringement of civil rights.

I have to disagree. Whether a consumer likes it or not, an individual is only licensed to use the Playstation software included with the system, and Sony is within their rights to protect the software.

Epsilon was hit hard in the last few days by hackers that have since gotten consumer information from Target and various other retailers. This is where it starts. To say the PSN scenario is any different is like saying it's okay to clone animals as long as we're not cloning people, one thing leads to another.

I for one have stopped playing certain games because hackers have ruined the experience. If people want to develop legitimate third party software for PSN, then they should petition for the privilege rather than force a company to deal with the issue in litigation. Ultimately, hackers will once again cost the innocent consumer time and money.

 

[plasmid303]

I just read the statement issued by Anon. Can't these guys ever make themselves be heard without sounding like petulant children?

 

[FQRizzo]

This is a perfect example of why you DO NOT want to make Internet people angry.

____ internet people in the ear.

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

What's the moral of this story?





















Buy an Xbox. Haha just kidding. It's a shame people feel they have the right to exploit other people or a company in this case. Hackers can die in a fire.

 

[Biojex]

I just read the statement issued by Anon. Can't these guys ever make themselves be heard without sounding like petulant children?

I agree. They need to work on that.

 

[EVILFACE]

I have to disagree. Whether a consumer likes it or not, an individual is only licensed to use the Playstation software included with the system, and Sony is within their rights to protect the software.

Epsilon was hit hard in the last few days by hackers that have since gotten consumer information from Target and various other retailers. This is where it starts. To say the PSN scenario is any different is like saying it's okay to clone animals as long as we're not cloning people, one thing leads to another.

I for one have stopped playing certain games because hackers have ruined the experience. If people want to develop legitimate third party software for PSN, then they should petition for the privilege rather than force a company to deal with the issue in litigation. Ultimately, hackers will once again cost the innocent consumer time and money.

But Sony does not have the right to know who visits "hacker" sites.

 

[ZombieRepublican]

But Sony does not have the right to know who visits "hacker" sites.

true but the argument here is they can tell who may have assisted GeoHotz in further spreading the hack, although it would only take one look at the page to save the info.

regardless im on sonys' side. this guy knew what he was doing and new the penalty so its his own fault.

 

[Starkiller]

They can do whatever they want to stick it to the man as long as it doesn't affect my online play.

 

[THX-182]

It's a shame people feel they have the right to exploit other people or a company in this case. Hackers can die in a fire.

I agree. Fry the *******.