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Apr 26, 2016 · It began with Anonymous, the umbrella-term hacktivist group which had been bombarding Sony's servers with distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. Anonymous had brought PSN to its knees...
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The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony 's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the ...
May 4, 2011 · An Anonymous offshoot known as "SonyRecon" also targeted individual Sony employees. However, last month Anonymous officially denied any involvement in the Sony PlayStation hack.
- Let's relive the most painful weeks in PlayStation history.
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By Colin Moriarty
Posted: Apr 21, 2012 12:40 am
April 20th has a strange place in history. The evil fascist dictator Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. Famous horror author Bram Stoker died on April 20, 1912. And of course, potheads are exceptionally fond of the date (but chances are, you already knew that).
But April 20 will live in infamy among the PlayStation Faithful as a result of The Great PlayStation Network Outage of 2011, which began on April 20 of last year and lasted until May 15. For nearly a month, PlayStation Network users were left high and dry by hacker exploits. Sony took the PSN offline once it realized it was compromised, but by then the damage was done.
Relive Your Misery
Everything that happened to PlayStation Network in April and May of 2011 can be traced back to early 2010, when Sony removed Linux support from PlayStation 3. This infuriated a tiny subsection of PlayStation 3 users who utilized PS3's previous open third-party operating system functionality. When George Hotz successfully jailbroke the PS3 in January of 2011 and was subsequently sued by Sony, the stage was effectively set for a showdown with hackers.
Anonymous ddosing psn had nothing to do with cheating. They were "picketing" online. What really bothers me is the fact that so many ps3 users think that anyone that jailbroke their ps3 is a cheater which is down right false.
SCEA v. Hotz was a lawsuit in the United States by Sony Computer Entertainment of America against George Hotz and associates of the group fail0verflow. It was in regards to jailbreaking and reverse engineering the PlayStation 3.
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May 5, 2011 · Sony has implicated the Internet collective known as "Anonymous" in the recent security failure on its PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment servers, resulting in the potential...
