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Sony confirms, PSN is down because of hackers
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article published on 23 April, 2011
Earlier this week we reported that Sony's PlayStation Network was down "for maintenance" and that Sony was saying the downtime might be a "day or two" as Sony worked to bring back all features.
The shutdown is taking a lot longer than a day or two, as the PSN is still not functional, but at least Sony has confirmed why the popular free service is non-functional.
Says the company, via its blog:
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23. April 2011 @ 12:47 |
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Maybe if you didn't treat your customers like shit this kinda thing wouldn't happen sony.
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23. April 2011 @ 13:00 |
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biglo30
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23. April 2011 @ 13:15 |
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Well we know sonys still not giving up right now, but I'm enjoying this news.
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brockie
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23. April 2011 @ 13:17 |
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@hikaricor who ever has done it all there doing is screwing over gamers hope they get found that is why no one is claiming responsibility for it.
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23. April 2011 @ 13:34 |
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I'm not justifying that it's the right thing to do or anything of that nature, but usually if you don't screw over your customers like sony has been doing all year, these things don't tend happen on such a massive scale. You might get one pissed off idiot out of the masses on a normal day, but on a sony day you get two dozen. That's all I'm sayin.
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23. April 2011 @ 14:31 |
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Originally posted by ANGRYSUBURBAN:
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Bold and bad grammar doesn't make it any easier to read bro.
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23. April 2011 @ 17:35 |
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Has anyone thought that Phony might be lying? Perhaps they're just configuring the perfect update that will tell them who is doing ANYTHING on their PS3, that is against the Phony policy. Perhaps they are configuring Netflix to work without the PSN (oh to dream). I notice that pretty much everyone can use Netflix without currently logging into the PSN (interesting). Or, maybe there is an evil genius at work, hellbent on destroying the online gameplay market. If this is the case, stop attacking the PSN, and go after Phony corporate, and stop messing with the PSN.
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23. April 2011 @ 17:36 |
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I am upset that people have nothing better to do than to bring down the network, people pay $60 a game to play and alot of the allure is the free online gaming otherwise people would play xbox and pay for the services, I know from playing world of warcraft online for 6yrs we never had an issue last longer than a half a day before it was fixed (downtime that is) and that was in the beginning stages of the game. I feel things aren't being fixed fast enough, yet i believe because it is free although $60 a game is hardly free thats why it is taking longer to fix, also I am upset about it...the first day i cancelled my world of warcraft is when the psn went down. So much for call of duty but I refuse to be like so many others and get ticked off about it, I'll go and play w/ my kids outside, maybe the hackers were doing this because they were sick of obese people on welfare playing all day on taxpayers money or athletically challenged kids(lazy ones) not wanting to get fresh air. I work allday fulltime, come home and spend time w/ my wife and kids and when they go to bed i game for a bit, so not obese or challenged but still abit upset that this happened, for me though not you :D
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23. April 2011 @ 20:19 |
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Lets count how many time PSN has had and external intrusion Shall we. only 1 time out of 11 years of service, pretty good track record.
Sorry Sony i'm calling your bluff, but even if i call it keep spinning your web, politicians and lobbyist like the flies they are will be willing do do your bidding.
Just a simple DDoS attack, but Sony is going to snowball this just you wait and see.
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23. April 2011 @ 23:00 |
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Originally posted by DXR88:
Lets count how many time PSN has had and external intrusion Shall we. only 1 time out of 11 years of service, pretty good track record.
Sorry Sony i'm calling your bluff, but even if i call it keep spinning your web, politicians and lobbyist like the flies they are will be willing do do your bidding.
Just a simple DDoS attack, but Sony is going to snowball this just you wait and see.
Yeah...they are going to try to declare DDoS attacks a form of terrorism, and then they will admit that DDoS attacks are just a form of mass protest, and then they will declare mass protest a form of terrorism.
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23. April 2011 @ 23:00 |
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My only concern is that Sony should be more forthcoming with details. Has any credit card or account info been exposed? How much longer do you expect to be down? I don't expect 99.999% uptime from a free service, but I wouldn't expect it to take too long to find the extent of the penetration of their servers and to restore them.
It would be ironic if Sony's severs had a rootkit installed and that is what is taking so long to fix.
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24. April 2011 @ 00:05 |
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I haven't even get to use the playstation network yet.Since december 19 2010 I got my ps3 and every time i try to sign in the "the connection to psn has timed out" message keeps coming up and ITS PISSING ME OFF
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24. April 2011 @ 01:46 |
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Like the banks, Sony will never admit to what's really happened. But I wouldn't be surprised if they played this up for all it's worth.
The fact that it's occurred over Easter makes me think it's not Sony themselves... too much potential revenue lost.
I am leaning towards a breakaway fundamentalist Anon group or member. It could be a Mafia organisation trying to blackmail Sony for money.
And contrary to what some may think, I actually am sorry for the PSN users (...bar one :P). It's hard to think of a happy ending here... Do you really think they would give OtherOS back? It wasn't making them any money in attached sales.
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Just read Thanatos63 post... interesting!
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24. April 2011 @ 02:56 |
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I am sorry for all PS3 owners...we are a persecuted bunch. Half the time we are being attacked by sony, the other half of the time we are caught in the crossfire between Sony and the people fighting back.
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