(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A group of hackers says it is planning another wave of cyberattacks against Sony in retaliation for its handling of the PlayStation Network breach.


An observer of the Internet Relay Chat channel used by the hackers told CNET today that a third major attack is planned this weekend against Sony's Web site. The people involved plan to publicize all or some of the information they are able to copy from Sony's servers, which could include customer names, credit card numbers, and addresses, according to the source. The hackers claim they currently have access to some of Sony's servers.
Should the planned attack succeed, it would be the latest blow in a series of devastating security breaches of Sony's servers over the past month. The failure of Sony's server security has ignited investigations by the FBI, the Department of Justice, Congress, and the New York State Attorney General, a well as data security and privacy authorities in the U.K., Canada, and Taiwan.


Several weeks ago the hacker group known as Anonymous targeted several Sony Web sites, including Sony.com and SonyStyle.com, with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in retaliation for what its members saw as Sony's unfair legal action against hacker George Hotz. Two weeks ago Sony's PlayStation Network, along with its Qriocity service and Sony Online, were the target of an attack that exposed the personal information of more than 100 million Sony customers. Sony was forced to shut down PSN, Qriocity, and Sony Online, and is currently working to bring them back online after rebuilding the security of its servers.


Sony says it doesn't know who orchestrated what it's calling a "highly sophisticated, planned" attack, but it has dropped hints that the group Anonymous is involved. Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, told a Congressional subcommittee in a letter yesterday that the intruders on its servers planted a file named "Anonymous" containing the statement "We are Legion," part of the group's tagline.


Anonymous issued a statement yesterday denying it was involved in the PSN breach. "While we are a distributed and decentralized group, our 'leadership' does not condone credit card theft," the statement said.
Now it seems the same group of hackers that was able to infiltrate the PSN servers is planning to hit back against Sony.
Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


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I AM SERIOUSLY TIRED OF THESE ****ING NEWBS. IDC WTF THEY WANT BUT IF IT INVOLVES ME NOT ENJOYING MY PS3'S ONLINE FEATURES THEN THEY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH MORE THAN JUST SONY. THEY NEED TO ROT IN PRISON WATCHING GAY PORN

Great post and thanks for the information. I too am fed up with the B.S. Do what you want to with the ps3 offline. I mean to keep it real most these people who agree with the cyber attacks and shit are the fagz who use the CFW to mod games and **** up my online play. You want Linux and what not that freaking bad go buy a pc and put it on there.

Consumers' rights to run CFW? Cunsomers' rights to use a OS? Fighting for hackers' rights is what you mean.

Fighting against overpriced DLC, implementing Cross game chat is fighting for consumer rights. This is not some social movement. It is being butthurt Geohot went to court and trying to fight for the iright to pirate games.

I buy bootleg music but if Itunes takes a bootlegger to court, I am not fighting for him. It's ****ing regular gamers AND hackers over. Fight to lower game costs not to run a slow ass OS or to avenge some geek.





Buying a console doesn't give you the right to expect to play online after breaking said console's rules.

That's like saying I should be able to go to a theater and film Fast Five wth my camcorder because I bought it. And actually you have the right to jailbreak but Piracy & playing on Sony servers overrides that.

Some people on NGU live in a fantasy world. I run pirated Windows to save money but I'm not dumb enough to think what I am doing is right. Hacking is ok until you actually think you're entitled to be able to.

Thanks for the info bro.

It's cool. Just keep wackin' it in the meantime, and all will be well. :megusta:

If Sony simply allow "some" access to CFWs, none of this would be happening right now.

Well said. But the argument here is....jailbreaking your system is only enabling the things Sony REFUSES to put it in the first place. Pirating games wasn't targeted at this. Geohot didn't stress users to 'pirate all the games you want guys! Enable Comgenies Awesome File Manager, and the Black FTP Server to run on my code!'

Piracy is illegal. That's the statement, and truth of the matter. Downloading music from Frostwire isn't what iTunes wants you to do. Downloading movies from PirateBay isn't what the million dollar movie companies want either, but there's ways around it. Personally, backing up my games is my favorite thing to do so far since I've jailbroken it.

If my God Of War lll disc cracks, guess what? I have the ability to play it now thanks to Multiman. But! Good point. Good argument.

I..... Like..... TURTLES!

Give me a ****ing break.