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A source with close connections to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe reports that the attack to the PlayStation Network may be a bit deeper than originally reported by Sony. According to the source, who wishes to remain anonymous, the PSN sustained a LOIC attack (which created a denial-of-service attack) that damaged the server. There was also a concentrated attack on the PlayStation servers holding account information. In addition, “Admin Dev accounts were breached.”

As a result, “Sony then shut down the PSN and [is] currently in the process of restoring backups to new servers with new admin dev accounts.” The SCEE source said Japanese servers may be restored tomorrow while the U.S. and E.U. servers will likely be operational the following day.

While this information is only corroborated via a series of Facebook messages, it is certainly not a stretch. Sony Computer Entertainment America recently confirmed that it pulled down the PSN because of an “external intrusion.” This essentially means that hackers were to blame. Sony is officially conducting a thorough investigation. The PSN and Qriocity services were pulled offline by Sony on Wednesday, April 20.

There was plenty of speculation late this week that the Anonymous hackers group was to blame for the PSN downtime. The group previously targeted Sony in retaliation to the legal action against another hacker. Anonymous has since denied involvement in the current PSN downtime.

Again, this information is from a source who claims to have a very close connection with someone at SCEE. We take these reports for what they are at this time, but it is certainly a possibility. If you have information to share, please do so.

"Everyone deserves the right to know what’s been going on," the source wrote in an email.

they say this everyday is going to be tomorrow and then the next day and so on

im pretty sure we know by now.... with all these threads saying the exact same thing im pretty sure we know... & exactly what rangerswatp1873 said... " they say this everyday is going to be tomorrow and then the next day and so on ".

just confirming it bro

i know bro.

if PSN isn't up by tommorow then put this quote

"A source with close connections to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe reports that the attack to the PlayStation Network may be a bit deeper than originally reported by Sony"

Another accusation..sony has been keeping all of us in the dark. And am really fed up with them, so me and all of my friends are switching to lagbox 360. why don't all of you psn users tag along. And quit posting pointless threads on the same thing. PSN IS DOWN FOR GOOD!!!!! MICROSOFT FTW:yuno::carling::carling::beer:

PSN is dead. We'll have to dig it a virtual game grave.

First you tell him to stop posting a thread, then you start trolling around saying "PSN IS DOWN FOR GOOD!!!!!" and then blab on how about microsoft is still working, just because we got hacked? Get out, im tired of people like this. So what if we got hacked, sh*t happens, laugh all you want, just keep your damn fingers off your keyboard and stop.

Thank you for this Batrush, but im just waiting patiently until it comes back online.

I hope so...but we will have to wait and see. I'm sure it's going to be up sometime this week. They are losing money and business and I'm the Developers, Engineers, Architects are working around the clock to get this done!