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Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it"

Posted Apr 22, 2011 at 8:51PM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: News Tags: anonymous, PlayStation Network, Sony

The infamous hacking group has denied any responsibility on the current state of the PlayStation Network.

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Sony's PlayStation Network remains down for the second day running after a sudden outage. So far, the firm has yet to identify the cause of the issue, only saying that they are still investigating the Network outage and it could be another full day or two (from yesterday) before the service is completely back up and running.

In a post over at their official site, Anonymous, the hacking group that previously targeted Sony sites, said they are not behind the PSN shutdown. The post reads...

"Sony's Playstation Network, its online service for Playstation 3 and its Playstation Portable consoles, suffered from a major outage today; which is on going as of this writting. According to Son'ys blog, the interruption in service may last into the long weekend - for at least another "full day or two". Sony released a statement through its EU blog, saying that the network outage may be a result of "targeted behaviour by an outside party", brining in the possibility of cyberattacks. Adding to the confusion is the fact that the message has since been removed.

"While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves AnonOps wa not related to this incident and takes no responsiblity for it. A more likely explination is that Sony is taking advantage of Anonymous' previous ill-will towards the company to distract users from the fact the outage is accutally an internal problem with the companies servers.

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Cant be Anonymous, all they do is start protests and whatnot while sending shitty videos with a shitty microsoft "sappy Sam" voice. Of course they didnt do it.

Sony suck, so it's likely a fault on their side. If "hackers" did do it, then they're only hurting the customers.

Also, what kind of idiots who call themselves Anonymous run an official site? Not very anonymous.

+1 # wow — hmm 2011-04-22 22:45

sony sucking it psn errors been happening all the time n they never give out a update that fixes the bullshit that restarts my routers when i turn on ps3 and my fav thing never came in updates either talking about music while playing games wtf on a few do thats stupid

-1 # Thank you Ryan F — Adjacent 2011-04-22 23:00

Thank you for allowing QJ readers to see "Both sides of the mirror" from an unbiased point of view!

-1 # RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — thevirgoprince 2011-04-22 23:09

I don't believe anon, they a bunch of low lifes with nothing better to do.

+1 # yeah — lordrand11 2011-04-22 23:51

I don't think Anon had a hand in this. I think Sony is updating the security vulnerabilities in PSN (and as a side thought didn't sony just make a new dept over the whole PSN SNEA isn't that who is handling it right now).

+1 # yep — xavis75211 2011-04-23 01:22

brings an interesting point here, but thats still for "America" branch. this is world wide. i doubt anon has a bone to pic with every sony branch in the world.

-2 # RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — Steven Labs 2011-04-23 00:26

@Anon
If it was in fact Anon...
Just forget about it dude.
If you really want, I can set up a date for you and GeoHotz(your wet-dream)
You guys can walk in the park, flirt, and who knows, you just might get lucky.

# RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — NerdTronX 2011-04-23 00:36

What you people should take into account is that anonymous is very de-centralized. No one makes the "decisions" its very divided as well. Some people may be attacking PSN and others may not be and have no idea what is going on. So take anything said by a single member very lightly, because they have just as much decision making process as any one else

# RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — PurpleNurple 2011-04-23 01:11

I don't think it matters. A majority of gamers are not happy with the situation anon has left us in. They need to face the fact that there involvement in this situation has made it worse. They stood behind a fool who ended up accomplishing nothing. They gathered a bunch of useless information about Sony employees. They even tried staging protest against Sony stores and no one showed up. How in the world are people going to take you seriously when you can't even get your own to gather for a protest. A group isn't defined by the words they speak but by the actions they make.

+1 # Sony's best at... — Chuggman 2011-04-23 01:35

Making their own worst problems. Let's face it who causes more problems for sony than sony themselves.
Break their own network. After they can't figure it out them say might be an attack.
Make customers upset. PSN plus charging. Other OS removal. PS2 compatibility removal. Now PSN Down.
Let's face it ... Anonymous is probably not the problem. Because nobody can cause more problems for sony than sony themselves.
Perhaps you want to blame failoverflow or geohot for causing them problems... Sorry can't really do that since if Sony's PS3 security was really as good as they say it was then it shouldn't of mattered. They caused there own problem on that one too.

# RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — AssassinXCV 2011-04-23 02:42

"While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves AnonOps wa not related to this incident and takes no responsiblity for it. A more likely explination is that Sony is taking advantage of Anonymous' previous ill-will towards the company to distract users from the fact the outage is accutally an internal problem with the companies servers.

# RE: RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — AssassinXCV 2011-04-23 02:43

typos^^^

+3 # RE: RE: RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — Linhat 2011-04-23 02:48

you also missed "explination"

# RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — Walo 2011-04-23 08:52

Anon is not the only hacker group on the net. And even Anon is just an umbrella of different groups.

+1 # Look at the bright side — Battle4Life 2011-04-23 11:22

Maybe this is the reason why SONY has their online servers for free in the first place because they knew shit like this would happen. If SONY's server's were as good as Microsoft servers in security, download/upload speed connection and good online game connection service, then we would have to pay for that kind of maintenance service, and SONY would become another money eating monster like Microsoft. So if SONY says they are going to fix it, then we just wait for it to be fixed, remember we'er not paying for their service's so expect alot of shit like this to happen in the future!

# ... — hoyneee3 2011-04-23 15:26

They're the same. BOth uses P2p to play online with the exception that PSN have more dedicated server than xbl.

# " We didn't do it " — TheRealDeal 2011-04-23 11:57

its obvious , X-Box coincidentally has a FREE online weekend, the SAME weekend PSN falls !? ... i kno the sales are dropping on X-Box but , come on ! ( thats pretty low X ) and of course im going to go over there ... I WANT MY ONLINE PLAY ! Seriously ... fix it, this is turning into a slow weekend and i didnt plan to go out ... B-rhine ... OUT!

-1 # RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — GilgameshVIII 2011-04-23 13:07

This is bull****! If it is Anonymous doing this s*** they need to cut it out, its just hurting the people they're fighting for now. All i want to do is play MAG and that requires the PLAYSTATION NETWORK!!!

-1 # I'm still blaming them — billylee8 2011-04-23 13:19

...and Geohot.

-1 # ... — undeadphillip 2011-04-23 13:22

Lies.

"A more likely explination is that Sony is taking advantage of Anonymous' previous ill-will towards the company to distract users from the fact the outage is accutally an internal problem with the companies servers."

^ Biggest load of crap anyone has ever tried to convince me to swallow in my entire life.

+2 # lol — undeadphillip 2011-04-23 13:30

Anon: "Our MO is to hack things. Currently, our primary target is Sony. Sony's been hacked? ...It wasn't us. More likely, Sony's servers suck and they are just incompetent. Us hackers who hate Sony DID NOT hack it... well, maybe some other hackers did but it wasn't us, honest..."

Srsly guys it wasn't anonymous... I mean, why would they hack So- oh wait...

# i think — almost89 2011-04-23 17:40

i think sony took down psn on purpose, pinning it on anonymous to bring more people to "their" side of this whole anonymous vs. sony war

+1 # I dunno — Imabanana 2011-04-23 22:44

That's a bugger risk for Sony than you might think because if this goes on for too long they'll probably have to reimburse ps+ subscribers. So I'm not sure if Sony pulling a move like that would be worth it, plus Sony seems to be getting more backlash for this than anon or hackers in general for some ridiculos reason.

-1 # its time — random guy 2011-04-23 18:06

i think its time they got better servers like xbox has because tbh im sick of lagging hardcore on a 3 bar and its sad that people had to hack their stuff to show how weak it is...... plus im kinda mad that i bought portal 2 for ps3 so i could also have it for the pc and when i try to go online psn was messed up

+1 # mr — boom bye bye 2011-04-23 22:36

playstation users stay
loyal because xbox will
fall

+1 # Fail. — M3GAN65552 2011-04-24 04:50

Seriously.
How long is this gonna take ... -_- ... not that im desperate but they said it would take up to 1 or 2 days .... its bein 4 days here ... gettin abit boring now ... :/ ....

-1 # Fail. — M3GAN65552 2011-04-24 04:54

I dont think it's not annonymous either .. its just a EPIC failure with the servers ... :3 ... Back up soon hopefully >.>

# RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — CreativeMindMedias 2011-04-24 19:38

i think they should try to establish some kind of order between eachother like a chamber of commerce or something

# Dude get it right — NovaTraxx 2011-04-24 21:22

Stop making so many fucking typos already Jesus Christ there are 13 year olds who can post more professionally.

# RE: Dude get it right — steven labs 2011-04-25 01:13

And professionalism is vital here, why?
Why are you being such a grammar nazi?
Your f-in up yourself.

Fixed:
Stop making so many fucking typos already, Jesus Christ.
There are 13 year olds who can post much better.

# RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — alan ortiz 2011-04-25 15:08

anonymous the best... but anon didint do it!

# RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — DeltaDAWG 2011-04-25 20:10

Of course it wasn't Anonymous. This hacker was successful!!!

# RE: RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — Steven Labs 2011-04-26 13:10

Exactly.

# RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — Jokerrules 2011-04-27 04:20

I can't believe how many American actually hate this Japanese company. Let get together and bring this Jap company down. A Jap Company that have provided 10 of thousand of jobs to American in the last 50 years.

A PS Networks goes down, it's Sony fault, a hacker hacked Sony networks it's Sony fault. NO matter where I read this stuff it's always the Sony fault.

Jap companies can do business in America, as long as they don't beat the American company, if they do, WE AMERICAN WILL DESTROY YOU.

Thank you China for kicking Google out of China.

# RE: RE: Anonymous on PSN outage: "We didn't do it" — DeltaDAWG 2011-05-02 16:26

It's not as many Americans as it would seems. It's only the dumb kids on the internet.

# i know wat it was — da_man316 2011-05-04 04:26

it was a devkey that u put in a usb drive it thinks its a ps3

# Sony Who Are U Fooln ? — TruSchool 2011-05-16 10:09

You can’t presume to tell anyone what to do with something which they have legally purchased as even EULA cannot stand up to consumer rights let alone the fair use laws.

Your gestapo like tactics and dictatorial behaviour speak volumes alone not to mention the fact that you removed “Other Os and BC” proves that your initial intent or lofty goals were never really to create a universal home entertainment system but instead to plant an “ATM” machine strictly for the corporations benefit in every home across the globe, so save your smoke screen as "Sony" is faaarrrrrrr from done suckering the gullible.

That is exactly why everyone should send a great “Big_F***_You” thats easy enough for the japanese to understand simply demanding their “Other Os and BC” along with the ability to play homebrew, install custom packages ect..
then lets all see exactly how much “Sony” truly has the best interests of general consumers at heart.

Release the PUP_pys & “Screw” SONY Today!!

Nuff Said.

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