To answer the Committees i believe that it would be helpful to provide additional background information so that the Committee can better understand the nature and complexity of these events.
Sony was the victim of multiple cyber attacks that occurred over a period of several weeks. initially. Anonymous openly called for and carried out massive “denial of service” attacks against numerous Sony internet sites in retaliation for Sony Computer Entertainment America bringing an action in Federal Court to protect its intellectual property. The bulk of these attacks were targeted at services offered by SNEA and SOE. many of these attacks lasted for several days. We know that some time shortly after those attacks one or more highly skilled hackers infiltrated the servers of SNEA and SOE. The first indication that there was a a problem was when several of SNEA’s servers began to act in an unexpected manner.
Four servers were initially isolated as suspect. As similar abnormalities were discovered in other servers within the network system, the decision to shut down the entire system was made.

of course they know who was it, i mean the firewalls of the psn were all off, so it was an inside job....

On the 18th of May, we reported that Mary Bono Mack, Chairman of a United States House Of Representatives Sub Committee was not happy nor satisfied, with the first set of answers, from the first set of questions that the Sub Committee sent Kazuo Hirai, so Mary Bono Mack sent Kazuo a new set of question and, here is a quote from his response:



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