Sony has confirmed that it took its PlayStation Network and Qriocity service offline to recoverfrom a hack attack
Posted on Saturday Apr 23, 2011 7:35 AM by Keir Thomas
When Sony's PlayStation Network was taken offline three days ago , all eyes fell on the Anonymous group, who've takena dislike to Sony over its treatment of hardware hacker George Hotz . The network allowsonline play between PlayStation 3 consoles and boasts 70 million users, so this is no small inconvenience.
Last night Sony confessed that an "external intrusion" caused the company to take-down the PlayStation Network and also Sony's Qriocity service in order"to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward". However, they're not saying anything more, or giving a time scale as to when gamers will be able to resume playing online.
What makes it strange is that Anonymous has denied being involved, claiming " for once we didn't do it " and suggesting Sony was using rumors of an Anonymous attack as cover for an internal problem with their servers. As yet Anonymous hasn't responded to the latest update from Sony.
However, the decentralized nature of Anonymous means thatindividuals act alone with no governance, and Anonymous admitted that "it could be the case that other Anons have actedby themselves.
Via http://www.pcworld.com/article/226128/sony_makes_it_official_playstation_network_hacked.html
