PSN hacked timeline.

[Alex Man!]

FINAL STAGES OF THE NEW NETWORK. HELL YES!

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[Deathwish]

The PSN claimed to have 64 or 128 bit encryption on credit details, when in fact they had none, it's not surprising that after a LOIC/HOIC DDOS attack, someone with malicious intent started digging and found gold at the surface in wrapping paper.

[Visage]

Didn't only Europeans get their credit card info stolen? I can live with that.

[Ladios]

I don't think anon did this. The hacker portion of anon, being a collective as they are, would not benefit at all from stealing credit cards from Sony as they do not exist as a group and cant sell off the info directly. They are just there to forget stuff up for fun.

[Thorax]

I don't think anon did this. The hacker portion of anon, being a collective as they are, would not benefit at all from stealing credit cards from Sony as they do not exist as a group and cant sell off the info directly. They are just there to forget stuff up for fun.

Someone claiming to be anon did it, and like it or not, everyone that claims the anon banner is thereby blamed.

[Lørd Tøny]

I don't think anon did this. The hacker portion of anon, being a collective as they are, would not benefit at all from stealing credit cards from Sony as they do not exist as a group and cant sell off the info directly. They are just there to forget stuff up for fun.

77million users being in risk for their identities stolen is a PR disaster for sony and that is possibly one way to ruin sony and I think anon knows this.

[Visage]

Sony needs to die, solely because they always buy out good MMOs and run them into the ground.

[brickybob]

They are hacking the ps3 because they are mad they can't get a jailbroken ps3. Bunch of immature children.

Sony needs to die, solely because they always buy out good MMOs and run them into the ground.

I'm gonna put two and two together here.

[Placid]

Hey, guys...

Steam.

Anyways, y'all don't have Uncharted 2, which is probably my favorite PS3 exclusive and is severely underrated by mainstream game media.

I didn't realise PSN network was down until BL forums posted about it.

[Lørd Tøny]

Sony needs to die, solely because they always buy out good MMOs and run them into the ground.

They buy out MMOs to run only on SOE but they don't control the development of the MMO, idiot.

[Jubel]

If Sony updates the PS3 and PSN monthly how does this happen?

:P

[Marcem]

If Sony updates the PS3 and PSN monthly how does this happen?

:P

Yep, PSN is run on a PS3.

[blaman]

Yep, PSN is run on a PS3.

Sony should start using PS3s to run PSN in a cloud

[Domidore66]

Sony should start using PS3s to run PSN in a cloud

The amount of RAM and the processor of the PS3 is already terrible as it is, and it's not really meant to be for multi-tasking.

[PowerDag]

While I agree that Sony promised more than they could ask for, the hacker(s) involved in this acted too negatively to this, IMO.

Sony removed the ability to install OS systems on the PS3 for a reason; most likely to improve it's ability to actually PLAY games. This seems reasonable enough, so I don't see the (legal) motive of the hacker(s).
tl;dr Sony tries to make game better, hackers get mad that they lose one simple feature.

The PS3/PSN was officially deemed (legally) un-jailbreak-able by the Sony corporation. IMO, this was a step in the right direction to prevent further hacking. GeoHotz had not obeyed this, and was subject to a (possibly large) lawsuit. Seeing that they could no longer obtain illegal copies of games, the hacker(s) were affected negatively; but the error in this situation was that they protested against Sony for not allowing them to do such. This seemed immature.
tl;dr

"OH Q_Q SONY SAID I COULD USE LINUX, AND I USED IT FOR PIRATING BREAKING THE USER AGREEMENT, AND NOW THEY TOOK IT AWAY AND I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO GIVES A stuff ABOUT IT SO I'M GONNA forget IT UP FOR EVERYONE ELSE"

My observation, in short, sees the hacker(s) as the one(s) in the wrong because he/she/they did not consider the legal implementations, and seemed to only be concerned about having one feature of the PS3 system.