PSN hackers attacked Admin Dev accounts, services returning in a day or two, SCEE source claims
- Posted April 24th, 2011 at 04:06 EDT by Adam Dolge
- 134 Comments
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.
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IchWillHeuteZocken
- 3:59pm EDT - April 25th, 2011
- 121
Mir wayne, aber ich will heute um 00.00 uhr zocken..
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paxboxx
- 4:53pm EDT - April 25th, 2011
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Well like most people said i agree that this may be a rival company....(XBOX) the day PSN went down was the day amazon and xbox annouced a free weekend .. keep in mind xbox and amazon are 2 big companies with enough knowledge to hack psn and get away with it .. my thought
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mikecheck101
- 6:13pm EDT - April 25th, 2011
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if it was not anonymous then maybe ps should look into hiring them to find out what the problem is,haha, because ps has made it clear that anonymous is so good at this kind of crap, but who\'s to say xbox/microsoft didn\'t do this to monopolize the whole online gamming scene, I don\'t know ,but either way this is just a total embarrassment to sony that a whole multi-billion dollar organization can be turned upside dowm from a few hackers, come on really?
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Anonymous420
- 6:48pm EDT - April 25th, 2011
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anonymous did say they were attacking Sony just not the PSN (playstation network), so this attack could have lead to an emergency shutdown. This does not mean anonymous is responsible for the network being shutdown. It was simply a saftey precauition due to the fact that sony was being attacked. This was not targeted towards the sony customers. If you look at it this way, the playstation network will be stronger after this.
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Killzone1977
- 8:20pm EDT - April 25th, 2011
- 125
Forget about what caused this in the first place I find that all moot now. This is costing people money and no I dont care if its costing sony. If a diner gave me a bad burger and had to take it back I wouldnt feel bad that the diner lost money on the garbaged burger. I would hoever feel bad for the customer if he had to wait for an undertermined amount of time for a new one and didnt even get a discount.
I am a DCUO player its the only reason I own this system and I pay for a subscription on top of PSN plus, buying the system and the game so although im not losing my shirt on this its money lost that everyone agrees isnt going to be refunded.
Whether its losing money or time on with friends this whole thing could have been a lot more tollerable if sony was honest with us from the begining, been more forthcoming about their plans for restoring the service and generally seemed more plugged in with the community.
So I ask, how are you going to make this up to us?
Killzone
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RealTalk504
- 12:47am EDT - April 26th, 2011
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I just want to know if our privacy to our info for our internet providers is safe and cant be used for fraud buy the hackers, just imagine how many credit cards people have used for net flix on there and playstation stores. Is the info to our rights are safe thats the question, this is more than just getting online its more to that...
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Killzone1977
- 8:52am EDT - April 26th, 2011
- 130
6 f'ing days in shiz valley with no word as to any plans sony has for restoring the service. gawd dam it sony give us an eta!
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harckersRnerds
- 10:34am EDT - April 26th, 2011
- 131
it wasnt those f*gs anonymous. it was ALL those losers that jailbroke their ps3. and others that used their jailbroken ps3 with the rebug firmware,toy HACK into the playstation store and rip off free stuff
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- 12:48pm EDT - October 10th, 2011
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