PSN down because of possibly hackers

Well I'm 90% sure its hackers but still. I'm surprised no one has made a topic on this.



Anon really needs to fuck off.

I bet it's sony pretending to be anon and is attacking sony in attempt to give anon bad publicity.

Who knows xD

Who knows who knows~ Maybe they are working together =O

I just seen it. I was planning on making a purchase on it this weekend for Phantom Brave for the PSP, but oh well..I can wait. (better than wasting my time and gas dealing with gamestop).

I was upset to know that hackers were the cause of this ongoing matter, I hope this gets fixed very soon, I haven't sparred with anybody since Wednesday and Im ready for Arcana Heart 3.

Maybe when Steamworks was integrated into PSN (because of Portal 2) it was also a means for Valve to put stick some malware in Sony's servers for some lulz? No but seriously, if I had to take a guess then this is likely a result of some vital servers malfunctioning for some reason and they have to patch it up, maybe even recover lost data on top of that, I think the hacker nonsense they're telling us is probably just some last-minute explanation to get rid of any blame towards them for this incident. If this really is a result of hackers then I'm gonna assume Sony had a DDoS attack.

I was in teh final minute of a 4 hour download of FF9 on my psp when boom, and error popped up. went to try it teh next morning and I couldn't log onto teh store of psn. asked around to see if my friends can get on, and they said tehy couldn't. and at first I thought it was some seriuos maintenece, but as I begin reading up on this. seems that psn has a hacker problem and has been a target in teh past. not saying that this is a hacker attack, but I am serioulsy considering not buying a playstion product ever again if I am to risk playing online or using teh psn when there newtork is unsecured. not to mention they maybe stealing funds from teh customers of teh psn. whatever they are doing. psn seriously should declare on these cyber terrorists and secure their network or risk loosing alot of customers.

UPDATE:
also it seems the problem has probly been identified.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/22/update-on-playstation-network-qriocity-services/

"An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services" is what it says in the first sentence. hmmm I wonder if this is a cyber terrorist attack.

^ Asshole lol.

I almost punched my monitor. Damned fake bugs.

Whatever the problem is it made me realize something

It's fucking boring without PSN!

I still remember last year,i had recently bought bayonetta,tried to play and it happened.
The Global internal battery screw up of all the old phat PS3 happened.Couldnt play for like 3-4days.

First off
U Mad bro!
Anon has nothing to do with it to my knowledge.

Anon Involved or not, this problem is unexpectedly not a "regular problem" for Sony themselves.
The odds that PSN malfunctioning by itself is small considering Sony is a large company, and would try to prevent all self-malfunctions. And that's why most people is assuming and speculating something "bigger" is behind the problem, as an example Anon, or a Hacker.

So, people are not "Mad", and do you have proof that Anon isn't the one "Making the problem"?

Considering I lurk /b/ on a regular basis and they arent claiming responsiblity. Either way it doesnt even make a difference. Shit Happens, Once this is said and done everyone will forget about it until Xbox Live goes down and the same thing happens. No one can be entirely sure.

1. Anon admitted it. Or atleast someone claiming to be them since anyone can.
2. Sony has admitted it was hacked. And that it will be up either today or tomm

Heres your proof

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/711542/psn-down-for-maintenance-as-anonymous-issues-a-statement-to-sony/

http://torrentfreak.com/clue-to-the-massive-playstation-network-shutdown-110422/

That G4 article is old and does not cover what is currently happening to PSN. Also, the second article states that Anonymous as a whole denies having any part of what is happening to PSN at the moment. However, there is still a possibility of individual Anon members acting alone, as your article briefly mentioned.

Good point on the 1st one. Got confused on the updated post. That was my point of the 2nd link

whatever teh case is. sony has to do something about this and prevent future cyber terrorist attacks on psn. if I was teh ceo of playstation, and luckly I am not. I would be hiring teh fbi to crack down on these cyber terrorists. they caused psn possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage as well targeted millions of customers of the psn.

UPDATE:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/23/latest-update-for-psnqriocity-services/

seems psn is reinforcing there network to prevent soemthing like this form happing again. I hope it is as tuff as fort knox and keep all hackers at bay.

Im thinkin it should be back up everywhere by tuesday being that today is a holiday. It couldnt have happened at a worse time either

I just hope it'd be back soon >.>

And I do hope they do fix the connection issues with games such as Black Ops while they're at it =.=