Post: Sony Set To Lose Millions From Playstation Hack Attack
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04-25-2011, 08:24 PM
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shawry
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Statement From Sony Coming Soon
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If anyone was watching the BBC News channel in the last hour or so hopefully they can verify this, but apparently we can expect a statement from Sony on the PSN outage, including the rumours surrounding customer credit card details, ‘within a couple of hours’.
According to a poster on GAF, the BBC have been in contact with Sony regarding the issues on a regular basis, and are expecting official word soon. That statement is also expected to include a timescale for resumption of services. According to reports on Twitter, the business news segment has just ran a comprehensive story on the whole thing.
We’d expect such a statement to arrive on the official blogs first, as all updates have been doing. We’ll let you know when it arrives, if indeed it does.
Update: further clarification – apparently the BBC correspondent was being continuously told by Sony that they’d issue a press release in ‘a couple of hours’, rather than a specific time frame. In short: don’t expect a response any time soon.
According to a poster on GAF, the BBC have been in contact with Sony regarding the issues on a regular basis, and are expecting official word soon. That statement is also expected to include a timescale for resumption of services. According to reports on Twitter, the business news segment has just ran a comprehensive story on the whole thing.
We’d expect such a statement to arrive on the official blogs first, as all updates have been doing. We’ll let you know when it arrives, if indeed it does.
Update: further clarification – apparently the BBC correspondent was being continuously told by Sony that they’d issue a press release in ‘a couple of hours’, rather than a specific time frame. In short: don’t expect a response any time soon.
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Hackers who were looking to hurt Sony may have been successful with the Company set to lose millions in revenue after their Playstation Network was bought down, during one of the busiest holiday periods of the year.
The Japanese Company may also face claims from disgruntled owners of consoles and IP enabled Sony TV's and Blu ray players who have paid to get access to Playstation content to only find that they cannot network with other users during the Easter period when a lot of people are on holiday and want access to content.
Sony has also sold Bravia TV's and Blu ray players to consumers, claiming that they can access movies on the Playstation network .
The Company said that they have been forced to rebuilding its PlayStation Network to bring it back online after an "external intrusion" caused it to suspend the service.
The network that is currently closed indefinitely has bee3n down since last Wednesday. At first Sony said that that there was a "minor problem". This escalated into an investigate of what was described as an" external intrusion".
Then on Thursday night the company who are tipped to report big losses next month said that it could take a "full day or two" to get the service back up and running.
On Saturday, the company said in a blog post that it was "working around the clock" to bring the services back online.
In Australia Sony customers are unable to access the Companies gaming, movie, and Qriocity music services.
Sony has not explained why they were not operating a backup system that could be restored in hours and not days after the hacker group Anonymous gave the Company a clear warning days out from the network being taken down that they were targeting Sony and their Playstation operation.
One observer said "It looks like Sony did not take the hackers serious. I believe that they are trying to install a new security system around their Playstation network. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to be hacked again".
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are your credit card details on psn? well check this out
The So Called Real Story Behind PSN Being DOWN
Do you think sony would do such a thing?
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Sony Set To Lose Millions[/FONT]
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Hackers who were looking to hurt Sony may have been successful with the Company set to lose millions in revenue after their Playstation Network was bought down, during one of the busiest holiday periods of the year.
Originally posted by another user
The Japanese Company may also face claims from disgruntled owners of consoles and IP enabled Sony TV's and Blu ray players who have paid to get access to Playstation content to only find that they cannot network with other users during the Easter period when a lot of people are on holiday and want access to content.
Sony has also sold Bravia TV's and Blu ray players to consumers, claiming that they can access movies on the Playstation network .
The Company said that they have been forced to rebuilding its PlayStation Network to bring it back online after an "external intrusion" caused it to suspend the service.
The network that is currently closed indefinitely has bee3n down since last Wednesday. At first Sony said that that there was a "minor problem". This escalated into an investigate of what was described as an" external intrusion".
Then on Thursday night the company who are tipped to report big losses next month said that it could take a "full day or two" to get the service back up and running.
On Saturday, the company said in a blog post that it was "working around the clock" to bring the services back online.
In Australia Sony customers are unable to access the Companies gaming, movie, and Qriocity music services.
Sony has not explained why they were not operating a backup system that could be restored in hours and not days after the hacker group Anonymous gave the Company a clear warning days out from the network being taken down that they were targeting Sony and their Playstation operation.
One observer said "It looks like Sony did not take the hackers serious. I believe that they are trying to install a new security system around their Playstation network. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to be hacked again".
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are your credit card details on psn? well check this out
The So Called Real Story Behind PSN Being DOWN
Do you think sony would do such a thing?
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04-26-2011, 12:15 AM
#20
ANTI-ONYX
Can’t trickshot me!
Originally posted by Tristan
It's not Sony's fault it was hacked. Some people are smart (& lucky) enough to bypass all their security, nothing is impossible.
with all due respect brother.....
Luck has very little to do with all this..... Smart yes, u bet you damn asss whoever breached sony is one smart son of a beach...lol......
but sony should've been more pro-active and anticipating such an attack....
5th day now and 70 million users worldwide in the dark...thats just down right, RIDICULOUS, a SHAME, a MOCKARY...., an EMBARRESSMENT for SONY....
04-26-2011, 12:17 AM
#21
TheBigRod
uh-may-zuh-zing
Originally posted by ONYX
with all due respect brother.....
Luck has very little to do with all this..... Smart yes, u bet you damn asss whoever breached sony is one smart son of a beach...lol......
but sony should've been more pro-active and anticipating such an attack....
5th day now and 70 million users worldwide in the dark...thats just down right, RIDICULOUS, a SHAME, a MOCKARY...., an EMBARRESSMENT for SONY....
Luck has very little to do with all this..... Smart yes, u bet you damn asss whoever breached sony is one smart son of a beach...lol......
but sony should've been more pro-active and anticipating such an attack....
5th day now and 70 million users worldwide in the dark...thats just down right, RIDICULOUS, a SHAME, a MOCKARY...., an EMBARRESSMENT for SONY....
Yeah, I suppose you are right on the luck & all, but it's common sense to know that they WERE lucky to find a way to breach Sony's security system. Prolly someone from Microsoft trying to get people to convert to 360.
04-26-2011, 12:23 AM
#22
ANTI-ONYX
Can’t trickshot me!
Originally posted by youthedog4
Actually they're saving money from the servers being down. Imagine how much electricity it uses a day? Imagine how much bandwidth they use? The amount people buy from the store a day is no where near the these costs. Most of their money comes from games and their physical sales of consoles, controllers, accessories, etc.
saving? no way.....the PS3 STORE is bigger than u think....think of all the movies people rent...all the PSN+ Subscribers, game and map downloads.......sony suffers, so does all 3rd party companies...
for example, dont u think threach is pissed at sony for not being able to sell map packs for black ops....(not that i care)
now multiply that by all the companies, game devs and movie studios that have deals with sony and the PS3 STORE......
THEY MUST BE PISSED WITH SONY...and rightly so.....
---------- Post added at 08:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:20 PM ----------
Originally posted by Tristan
Yeah, I suppose you are right on the luck & all, but it's common sense to know that they WERE lucky to find a way to breach Sony's security system. Prolly someone from Microsoft trying to get people to convert to 360.
nice conspiracy theory bout microsoft....but i highly doubt it...most likely are hackers still mad about OTHER OS feature stolen from us back in the 3.21 OFW days... i dont feel bad for sony one bit.... they deserved it..... even though is sux for us too....
04-26-2011, 12:24 AM
#23
ciunas
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Originally posted by ONYX
boo hoo.......
it's their own damn fault.... i love my ps3......but man, sony sux at security.... if they were proactive and serious about security issues (Lack of), this would've never happened in the 1st place....
Sony has been warned many times bout their security holes.....HELL even geohot warned about it....
so who do I blame......nobody but SONY themselves.... do i feel sorry for them? Hellll No...... they stole our "OtherOS" back in 3.21 OFW..... what goes around, comes around....
SO.......
BOOO HOOO....
it's their own damn fault.... i love my ps3......but man, sony sux at security.... if they were proactive and serious about security issues (Lack of), this would've never happened in the 1st place....
Sony has been warned many times bout their security holes.....HELL even geohot warned about it....
so who do I blame......nobody but SONY themselves.... do i feel sorry for them? Hellll No...... they stole our "OtherOS" back in 3.21 OFW..... what goes around, comes around....
SO.......
BOOO HOOO....
You actually used other OS?
04-26-2011, 12:29 AM
#24
ANTI-ONYX
Can’t trickshot me!
Originally posted by sh
You actually used other OS?
YES I DID....I had LINUX running some homebrew..... so did a TON of PS3 users......they stole it from us after 3.21 OFW....
WHY do u think they settled with geohot....he kicked sony's azzz in court on the OTHER OS issues.....
04-26-2011, 12:29 AM
#25
Porter_Justice
Cake is a lie
Originally posted by ONYX
saving? no way.....the PS3 STORE is bigger than u think....think of all the movies people rent...all the PSN+ Subscribers, game and map downloads.......sony suffers, so does all 3rd party companies...
for example, dont u think threach is pissed at sony for not being able to sell map packs for black ops....(not that i care)
now multiply that by all the companies, game devs and movie studios that have deals with sony and the PS3 STORE......
THEY MUST BE PISSED WITH SONY...and rightly so.....
---------- Post added at 08:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:20 PM ----------
nice conspiracy theory bout microsoft....but i highly doubt it...most likely are hackers still mad about OTHER OS feature stolen from us back in the 3.21 OFW days... i dont feel bad for sony one bit.... they deserved it..... even though is sux for us too....
for example, dont u think threach is pissed at sony for not being able to sell map packs for black ops....(not that i care)
now multiply that by all the companies, game devs and movie studios that have deals with sony and the PS3 STORE......
THEY MUST BE PISSED WITH SONY...and rightly so.....
---------- Post added at 08:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:20 PM ----------
nice conspiracy theory bout microsoft....but i highly doubt it...most likely are hackers still mad about OTHER OS feature stolen from us back in the 3.21 OFW days... i dont feel bad for sony one bit.... they deserved it..... even though is sux for us too....
IF they were proactive THEY STILL WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO SHUT DOWN servers to prevent this. So what difference does it make? Instead of April 2011 it would've been Oct 2010 or Jan 2009?
Did Kevin Butler steal your girl???
Backward capabilities being taken away was more important than running a SLOW ass version of Linux.
04-26-2011, 12:41 AM
#26
ANTI-ONYX
Can’t trickshot me!
Originally posted by Justice
IF they were proactive THEY STILL WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO SHUT DOWN servers to prevent this. So what difference does it make? Instead of April 2011 it would've been Oct 2010 or Jan 2009?
Did Kevin Butler steal your girl???
Backward capabilities being taken away was more important than running a SLOW ass version of Linux.
Did Kevin Butler steal your girl???
Backward capabilities being taken away was more important than running a SLOW ass version of Linux.
who said they would've had to shut down the servers......not necessarily....companies migrate data over and over back and forth between newer and older servers all the time.... it's called REDUNDACY....
I've been a software engineer for years, so trust me when I say they blew it......
as far as linux, u are right, it was cheap asss slow, but the point is that it was ours, and they took it away... it's called STEALING....
04-26-2011, 12:44 AM
#27
GangstaCupcake1
HELLO FRIEND 
Sony knew this was coming, yet they wanted to make everybody think they knew what they were doing 
04-26-2011, 12:46 AM
#28
Porter_Justice
Cake is a lie
Originally posted by ONYX
who said they would've had to shut down the servers......not necessarily....companies migrate data over and over back and forth between newer and older servers all the time.... it's called REDUNDACY....
I've been a software engineer for years, so trust me when I say they blew it......
as far as linux, u are right, it was cheap asss slow, but the point is that it was ours, and they took it away... it's called STEALING....
I've been a software engineer for years, so trust me when I say they blew it......
as far as linux, u are right, it was cheap asss slow, but the point is that it was ours, and they took it away... it's called STEALING....
So is piracy. So I should be mad at McDonald's when they take away the Mcrib. Is that stealing too???
Microsoft products get hacked too. IF you are an engineer you should know people learn how to hack things. Viruses get past antivirus software. You can't use hindsight as the basis of an argument.
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