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Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attack

Posted Apr 23, 2011 at 11:07PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: Rumors, News, PlayStation Network Tags: anonymous, SCEE, Sony
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1. Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attack
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It's been three days now, and still the PSN service remains out. After dilly-dallying with the explanation as to what exactly happened, Sony has now given a statement via the US arm of the PlayStation Blog. This, coupled with the rumors that the attack was directed to the Admin Dev accounts.




First, on the update. Senior Director for Corporate Communications and Social Media, Patrick Seybold, posted this statement:



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"We sincerely regret that PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been suspended, and we are working around the clock to bring them both back online. Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to further strengthen our network infrastructure. Though this task is time-consuming, we decided it was worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security.



We thank you for your patience to date and ask for a little more while we move towards completion of this project. We will continue to give you updates as they become available."



But as to what really brought about this major inconvenience, they still have yet to explain. Regardless of their silence, though, rumors still come rolling in.



PSU reports that the damage really was an LOIC attack, which essentially was a denial-of-service, thereby damaging the server. This, according to their informant who supposedly has very close ties with SCEE.



 




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# all other points asidezed 2011-04-24 03:05
This is going on longer than i thought they would have let it.

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-5 # RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackMabie A. 2011-04-24 03:12
and now we're hearing more rumors now linking valve's gabe newell to this whole mess. people are saying that it was steam's partnership to the ps3 that opened up the console and made it vulnerable to hackers and attacks. a stretch, yes, but now that they mention it.. hmm.. *cue gabe newell's evil laughter*

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-2 # www.acrylicstyle.comAcrylic Style 2011-04-24 04:35
lol, funny being that Steam wasn't the only network other than PSN able to connect to the PS3, and that Steam is known to have better security measures in place than the PSN itself.

The PSP and PS3s security is horrible, what's to say the PSN isn't just as bad?

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# Do you not read your own articles?animebuster 2011-04-24 06:57
"Considering that they've been exerting all efforts possible to come up with as much damage as they can to Sony, it really is a a wonder why they would deny this one crippling attack on the PSN."

Do you not read anything? Anon stopped attacking the PSN because it inconvinced users.... If they lied about the attack being from them that would go against what they told their users and no one would follow them...

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# Aboveanimebuster 2011-04-24 06:58
sorry not users *Followers

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-3 # RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackJelster 2011-04-24 04:02
Valve died when they announced Half life 2 episode 3.

They losy my interest so long ago, and now their screwing with my console?

See? Molyneux was right. I shoudlve keeped my ps3 cfw'ed :(

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-1 # RE: RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackEss- 2011-04-24 06:31
Valve...dead....lulz...

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+2 # RE: RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackN.R.. 2011-04-24 07:26
Please don't exagarate. A few days without PSN is no excuse to turn to Piracy. It's not like all your games are not working right? Yes, PSN is important. But we can survive without it for a while. Think about it like an Easter vacation (or Passover vacation if you are Jew)from PSN.

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-1 # RE: RE: RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attacklordrand11 2011-04-24 11:59
Quoting N.R..:
Please don't exagarate. A few days without PSN is no excuse to turn to Piracy. It's not like all your games are not working right? Yes, PSN is important. But we can survive without it for a while. Think about it like an Easter vacation (or Passover vacation if you are Jew)from PSN.


I don't know man. You can only play some games right now or at least I can. I got portal 2 can't link it up with my steam cause of this, can't play mag, lbp2 gets boring without anyone on there, killzone 2 is ok for short periods of times, resistance 1 is freaking awesome, mvc3 is fun but gets tiresome after playing through it a couple of times, gt5 is fun but can get tiresome after awhile, and there is only so many times you can play through uncharted 2 before getting bored out of your mind.

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-1 # RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attacktrigger_ftu 2011-04-24 04:51
after seeing the attack that was used. it came to mind on a bit of research i did a few years back. thats the same script kiddie tool that annona.... uses for all their attacks. so as for their "we are your friends" and " we didn't do it" i'm calling BS on it. for such an elite hacking group they enjoy doing more damage than helping.

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-2 # YupRavenSPe 2011-04-24 06:05
I didn't think they did it at first either but it's a bit convenient that it's the same script they've used in previous attacks. And naturally, they've been receiving a lot of hate from gamers and just days before say they're "Done with attacks and are on our side". It's all just too coincidental.

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+2 # Anonanimebuster 2011-04-24 07:50
Quoting RavenSPe:
I didn't think they did it at first either but it's a bit convenient that it's the same script they've used in previous attacks. And naturally, they've been receiving a lot of hate from gamers and just days before say they're "Done with attacks and are on our side". It's all just too coincidental.


How is this coincidental?
1. Anon attack sony via the PSN
2. users/Gamers say fuck you anon for taking down the PSN
3. Anon says they're sorry and won't do anything that will affect users/gamers anymore
4. PSN gets taken down and people start to blame it on anon

Anon isn't the only group of hackers out there you know? Why would anon who want people to follow them do something that would make Anyone who is following them decide to hate them instead? We'll probably find out who attacked sony soon enough anyway.

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# RE: AnonMisterAV 2011-04-24 10:49
LOIC need many people, many many people together to be accomplished... it's not a group of hacker...

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-1 # RE: RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackDigwe11 2011-04-24 08:50
I agree, they couldn't come up with any other way of attacking Sony, so just did it anyway. They are even bigger liars than ploiticians.

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# hempsoup kitchen 2011-04-25 08:54
I don't think so buddy politicians are the biggest liars in history.

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# RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackPS360 Owner1 2011-04-24 08:02
Probably some unknown PS3 hacker took down PSN and he's enjoying it seeing Sony can't resolve it.

Makes more sense a PS3 hacker wanting to attack PSN than Microsoft, M doesn't need to beat PSN, it has its own audience.

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+1 # LOLFreePlay 2011-04-24 09:26
Nothing like a good bullshit rumor story to keep that sweet QJ coin coming in, eh Mabie? Next time, give it a proofread first.

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# saudifahad alsaadi 2011-04-24 10:34
Is The My Account In pns Hacked ?


:o

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# RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackGamerDood 2011-04-24 14:19
Anon, is now trying to wash their hands of this whole mess since the gamers backlashed on them. Somewhat of a fail on their part. Maybe they didnt expect so much backlash? I suppose that's what they get for messing in other's affairs...

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# RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackLenny 2011-04-24 16:20
If anything, Anonymous helped you guys realize the shoddy security of the PSN. Again, the fact that Anon aimed at the PSN Store, yet managed to take down the entire worldwide PSN for 3 days says a little something. The fact that Sony didn't bother to properly segregate the network services *after* the Anon attack speaks volumes. Anon targeted the *store*, not the gaming and matchmaking systems. They were never after *gamers* (other than making PSN purchases impossible), they were after Sony's wallet. They've managed to get more attention than they either wanted or expected, and have undoubtedly decided to back off and let things cool down. However, someone (or many) managed to get legit traffic through that packet storm, gained some valuable information, and was surprised to find it all to be just as useful 2 weeks later. If it wasn't Anon, then you'd have to think that Sony has more enemies, or at least a group of those that don't give a shit about gamers *or* Sony, and did it strictly for the "lulz".

And kudos to Mabie for helping seed another new rumor to debate over. Why dig for information when we can just grasp on to water-cooler chit chat? :)

The PSN is and has always been broken. We should thank your lucky stars that someone has finally shown us exactly how broken it's been. If anything comes from this it'll hopefully be that Sony hires a real internetworking firm to do what they obviously can't.

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# only one things remains....WindSlash 2011-04-24 20:46
We have no choice... to destroy this hacker, or virus attack, you will have to turn on Skynet... but first, don't forget to disable the nuclear silo plz...

lol

ok ok it's been 3 days, and yet no psn, I just wish that all the stuff every players downloaded won't be lost... because if it's the case, I think sony will have to refund a lot if people...

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# RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackShimmer 2011-04-24 21:23
LOIC.... That's sad when PSN can get taken down by Low Orbit Ion Cannon...

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# RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackZero Un-Cool 2011-04-25 02:52
Hack the Planet!

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# RE: Rumor: PSN outage due to Admin Dev Accounts attackNakedFaerie 2011-04-25 02:52
And people didn't believe me when I said I hacked PSN. LOL

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# OUTSIDEJohnny Bravo 2011-04-25 02:57
Here's an idea. While PSN is down you have 3 choices.
1, play a different console.
2, play singleplayer.
3, GO OUTSIDE. You will see a bright light, thats called "The Sun". You will also feel a warmth and thats what the sun does, it warms things. And that smell is called "flowers" and they are the colored things you see when you look down.

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# Anyone?PuckinFist 2011-05-09 18:26
ALL my psn games stopped working, says i have to update the time via internet and thats disabled right now, anyone elses shit quit working? I can only play disc games

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