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Sony says Anonymous DDoS attacks distracted it
HACKED GAMING VENDOR Sony has made the excuse that Anonymous distracted it as it struggles to explain the attack that compromised around 100 million of its customers' data.
Having reacted slowly to the outage at first, Sony now barely lets a day go by without teasing out a bit more information about what it knows, what it doesn't know, what hasn't happened and what might happen, and what it is trying to do about it.
The firm's latest revelation is that it has found evidence of an Anonymous attack on its servers.
In a letter of response to the US House of Representatives that was sent in lieu of a personal appearance, Kazuo Hirai, chairman of the board of directors at Sony Computer Entertainment America said that the firm was the victim of a very professional and very carefully planned criminal cyber attack.
He added that Sony had discovered a file on its systems which bore the name Anonymous, as well as snippets of text including "We are legion", a phrase commonly associated with the group.
The letter added that the attack was timely, it said 'perhaps by design', because its security teams were dealing with the denial of service attacks launched in support of Geohot, and suggested that the earlier attacks were something of a smokescreen.
Although it attacked Sony in support of George Hotz as he faced a Sony lawsuit, Anonymous has denied involvement in the data theft, but since it is a loose collection of individuals with a common ideology it is reasonable to suggest that the hacking attack might have involved someone, or a group of people, associated with it.
Anonymous has denied involvement in the data theft, however, and always has. Responding to Hirai's statement Anonymous, or at least some part of it, released its own comment. "If a legitimate and honest investigation into credit card theft is conducted," it said, "Anonymous will not be found liable."
Sony has promised to keep its online gaming systems offline until it has completely fixed its security. It might be some time. µ
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All that purchased Sony hardware have gotten what they deserve for buying anything Sony!A scum company run by a bunch of useless gits obliviously.
You know, Sony just admitted that their servers were running old software with known security holes and that many of their key network components were running without firewalls enabled. That's the mother of ALL f*ck-ups! They are accountable and deserve to be sued into the ground for this.
Now, if Anonymous were to hack their E3 presentation, that would be awesome! ;)
Next they are going to say they couldnt see the hack cause the sun was in their eyes. Sony, you cant just blame one group becuase your entire network was hacked by other entities AFTER the inital firing of the Ion Cannon began. Thats like me blaming trojan because I was to distracted by my lady to jimmy up...
I still can't play my games
Anonymous's DDOS happened long bk from when their PSN was attacked. Is Sony's security division only have 1 or 2 engineers or what for them to say they were distracted by an attack which happened months back. So if another attack happens would they say the PSN & DDOS attack distracted them from this ?
Sony need to stop speculating on who hacked their system and get it backup and running. Try checking the western block of russia that's where most of the hackers are.
I don't see why these big companies don't hire these hackers to prevert data loss. It would be a lot simpler then just speculating on WHO DONE IT.
Also if these BIG COMPANIES kept there security software up-to date then no hackers would able to hack their system(s)
Anthony
That is beyond weak. I wonder how many idiot politicians will listen to them?
Sooooo... Cyberattacks distracted Sony from preventing cyberattacks?
Not becuase sony spends more on Lawers than security.
I think they distracted themselves.
there i was reading this text message and all of a sudden this tree leapt out in front of me....