Sony Makes it Official: PlayStation Network Hacked

When Sony's PlayStation Meshing was taken offline three days ago, entirely eyes fell on the Anonymous aggroup, who've assumed a disfavour to Sony over its treatment of hardware hacker George VI Hotz. The network allows online play between PlayStation 3 consoles and boasts 70 million users, so this is no small inconvenience.

Last night Sony confessed that an "external intrusion" caused the company to take up-down the PlayStation Network and also Sony's Qriocity service in order "to verify the flowing and in safe custody operation of our network services going send on". However, they're not expression anything many, or liberal a time scale as to when gamers will be able to resume playing online.

What makes it strange is that Anonymous has denied being involved, claiming "for once we didn't do it" and suggesting Sony was using rumors of an Anonymous attack A cover for an internal trouble with their servers. As yet Anonymous hasn't responded to the latest update from Sony.

However, the decentralised nature of Anonymous means that individuals playact unparalleled with no governance, and Nameless admitted that "it could be the slip that other Anons feature acted by themselves."

The diction Sony used–speaking of an "external intrusion"–indicates that this wasn't a Meted out Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which is one of Anonymous' virtually popular modus operandi. Rather, 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 unnatural by the hacker and repair IT surgery restore files. It's like removing a gnawer plague from a house–there's no ready and easy fix.

The breaking and entering might even be coincidental to the recent Anonymous actions, or could be a hack attack from much fourth dimension ago that has until now remained undiscovered. However, the timing is sure suspicious, with various of 2020's most anticipated game titles launching this week, including Mortal Kombat, Hepatic portal vein 2 and SOCOM 4.