Hackers attack PlayStation Network, tweet about bomb on plane carrying SOE president John Smedley

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Update: Sony has issued a confirmation that the PlayStation Network is back online and it's back to business as usual after the network was taken offline most of Sunday due to a distributed denial of service attack. According to Sony, there's no evidence of intrusion to the network and thus no personal information has been accessed.

Having trouble connecting to the PlayStation Network? You're not alone. Sony has confirmed that the online service has been brought down by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

"Like other major networks around the world, the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network have been impacted by an attempt to overwhelm our network with artificially high traffic", the company said in a statement posted on the Playstation blog, adding that no personal information was compromised during the attack.

The company originally planned to bring the PlayStation Network down for maintenance today.

A hacker group by the name of Lizard Squad has claimed the responsibility of the attack, saying that the action wouldn't stop until the US ceased attacks on the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL).

The group also claimed credit for similar attacks on World of Warcraft developers Blizzard Entertainment and Riot Games, the makers of League of Legends.

In an alarming twist, the group also sent a tweet to American Airlines, saying there were explosives on the plane in which Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley was traveling yesterday, following which the plane was diverted to Phoenix to have its cargo inspected.

An American Airlines spokeswoman confirmed that Flight 362 from Dallas/Fort Worth to San Diego, which had 179 passengers and six crew members on board, was diverted "due to a security-related issue". Smedley also confirmed that the airlines had changed his flight's destination.

A Sony Online Entertainment rep confirmed that the FBI is investigating the incident. We'll have you covered as more information becomes available.

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That's great attack a game company instead of military... instead of trying to actually stop the attacks by cripling the US militarys systems & communication you would rather slow down someones game...

Is it me or is Lizard Squad made by a bunch of full on retards? They actually dont know a thing about how to get stuff going your way like at all... Hope lizard squad gets bombed by ISIS/ISIL.

The Lizard Squad dont have enough skills to hack anything :/
 
And its back online again...

Well done lizard squad, You achieved nothing for your country.

You did however stop geoff from oregons 15 kill streak.
 
That's great attack a game company instead of military... instead of trying to actually stop the attacks by cripling the US militarys systems & communication you would rather slow down someones game...

Is it me or is Lizard Squad made by a bunch of full on retards? They actually dont know a thing about how to get stuff going your way like at all... Hope lizard squad gets bombed by ISIS/ISIL.

The Lizard Squad dont have enough skills to hack anything :/

If you're (part of) a terrorist outfit, you don't influence world powers by directly challenging superior military forces, you do it by making the lives of their people inconvenient and frightening.

What they fail to realize is that Americans don't like their services interrupted. Do enough meddling with this culture's entertainment and they will flock to recruiting centers for the opportunity to deliver the bombs personally.
 
So they want to prevent people from playing video games because the US military is attacking a terrorist organization, which is probably not improving the way of life of the people in their own country... so much lack of common sense. Oh wait, I mean uncommon sense.
 
Probably a script kiddie. First he was alone, then with anonymous, then with IS. Whoever it is has either built or bought a large bot-net to be able to create enough traffic to shut down services that are used to large numbers of requests just from users logging in.

I have a feeling he got carried away and made a stupid move - a bomb threat. Take down video games and the law might care. F*** with airplanes or the government and that's another story.
 
Isn't this about the 76th time their network has been hacked in the past year or two?

Wasn't a hack. DDOS just means you have thousands or more sources ping a server several hundred times a second to "keep out" real traffic to the server. No hack was made, just thousands of PCs have malware on them.
 
Wasn't a hack. DDOS just means you have thousands or more sources ping a server several hundred times a second to "keep out" real traffic to the server. No hack was made, just thousands of PCs have malware on them.

Exactly. Think of it like messing with a bank. To hack a bank, you need to crack the safe. DDoS, on the other hand, is roughly the equivalent of banging on the vault door repeatedly with a hammer, until the noise gets so bad nobody can stand to wait in line for deposits/withdrawals. It is annoying, pointless, and weak.

A better analogy would be standing inside an elevator with a bag full of air horns. Unfortunately, DDoS attackers can't be the victims of "unexpected mechanical failures," so the elevator analogy is flawed.
 
Isn't this about the 76th time their network has been hacked in the past year or two?

Wasn't a hack. DDOS just means you have thousands or more sources ping a server several hundred times a second to "keep out" real traffic to the server. No hack was made, just thousands of PCs have malware on them.
Wasn't a hack. DDOS just means you have thousands or more sources ping a server several hundred times a second to "keep out" real traffic to the server. No hack was made, just thousands of PCs have malware on them.

Exactly. Think of it like messing with a bank. To hack a bank, you need to crack the safe. DDoS, on the other hand, is roughly the equivalent of banging on the vault door repeatedly with a hammer, until the noise gets so bad nobody can stand to wait in line for deposits/withdrawals. It is annoying, pointless, and weak.

A better analogy would be standing inside an elevator with a bag full of air horns. Unfortunately, DDoS attackers can't be the victims of "unexpected mechanical failures," so the elevator analogy is flawed.

A hack is a hack guys... to make something easier. Not debating, I just think that's part of the definition. DDOS attack could be considered a life hack. lol
 
Isn't this about the 76th time their network has been hacked in the past year or two?

Wasn't a hack. DDOS just means you have thousands or more sources ping a server several hundred times a second to "keep out" real traffic to the server. No hack was made, just thousands of PCs have malware on them.
Wasn't a hack. DDOS just means you have thousands or more sources ping a server several hundred times a second to "keep out" real traffic to the server. No hack was made, just thousands of PCs have malware on them.

Exactly. Think of it like messing with a bank. To hack a bank, you need to crack the safe. DDoS, on the other hand, is roughly the equivalent of banging on the vault door repeatedly with a hammer, until the noise gets so bad nobody can stand to wait in line for deposits/withdrawals. It is annoying, pointless, and weak.

A better analogy would be standing inside an elevator with a bag full of air horns. Unfortunately, DDoS attackers can't be the victims of "unexpected mechanical failures," so the elevator analogy is flawed.

A hack is a hack guys... to make something easier. Not debating, I just think that's part of the definition. DDOS attack could be considered a life hack. lol

Are you one of those guys that thinks crackers and hackers are the same thing?
 
This Lizard Squad can't do much, they tried to hack PSN yesterday did it work... no lol. I logged in yesterday with no problems. They should stop the bomb threats though, that's a big mistake in America.
 
This Lizard Squad can't do much, they tried to hack PSN yesterday did it work... no lol. I logged in yesterday with no problems. They should stop the bomb threats though, that's a big mistake in America.

These guys live in a region the US is already bombing I don't think they care.
 
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