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PlayStation Network Still Suffering From Attacks

Posted on Thursday, April 21 @ 10:01:12 Eastern by


Sony has been in a long, arduous battle against hackers since the beginning of this year when they took notorious hacker GeoHot to court for "circumventing" certain security measures on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Network. The move ticked off the entire hacker community, including hacker group Anonymous.

Tensions hit an all-time high when Anonymous brought down a number of Sony's sites and started targeting Sony employees. The tactics seemed to work, as Sony reached a settlement with GeoHot in the case. Everything seemed to be coming to an end, and finally, Sony and PlayStation Network users could get back to normal...

However, issues with the PlayStation Network, the PS3's equivalent to Xbox LIVE service, still remain, and may even be getting worse by the day. Over the past week, the PSN has been down intermittently and has been completely inaccessible for the past few hours. The problems are bad enough for Sony to address them publicly today, thanking PSN users for their patience:

As you are no doubt aware, the current emergency outage is continuing this afternoon and all Sony Online Network services remain unavailable. Our support teams are investigating the cause of the problem, including the possibility of targeted behaviour by an outside party. If the reported Network problems are indeed caused by such acts, we would like to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service. Our engineers are continuing to work to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customers’ continued support.

This is no doubt doing a number on Sony's image in the eyes of loyal consumers, who are likely beginning to get fed up due to the near-constant service outages as of late. How about you? Are you suffering from these persistent issues?
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  • Sebastian_Moss
    Sebastian_Moss
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 11:38 am
    Absolutely infuriating
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  • DaVillain
    DaVillain
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 12:06 pm
    Havent been suffering. B why go after Sony when there are plenty of "public servants" within our governments to go after. I mean...some elected officials and organizations would rather do away with our gaming rights all together. Why not disrupt their abilities. Jack Thompson anybody? Some of the consumers being hurt could have been potential supporters for a more legitimate cause Just saying...
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  • Klandathu
    Klandathu
    Joined: Apr 2008
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 12:06 pm
    Anonymous keeps telling people that they aren't responsible for the attacks on the PSN, and that they never were. I got into it with one of these guys on facebook (yeah, I'm super cool like that) and he said that people "aren't listening to what we're trying to do, all they pay attention to is some of the side-effects of what we're trying to achieve" and that "people aren't willing to see Anonymous' goals as a whole, they are only willing to see see the parts that cast them in a bad light" and some other drivel like that.
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  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2
    Joined: Jan 2009
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 12:22 pm
    PSN has, for the most part, been inaccessible for me lately. Wouldn't be a big deal, but I have to be logged into PSN for Netflix (which my kids use regularly) to work. I'm not at all upset with Sony. They're within their rights to protect the profitability of their product. I'm getting annoyed that the protestors aren't affecting their "enemy" but their fellow consumers. "Come join our cause while we **** your **** up" is not a good clarion call.
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  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 1:09 pm
    Meh, I don't use my PS3 for online games. If I know a game has an online feature I want to play I generally get it for the 360. Sure, you have to pay for Live, but this is one of those cases where you get what you pay for.
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  • Rinnon
    Rinnon
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 1:29 pm
    Klandathu: Wow. I can't even begin to imagine the level of immaturity it would require to believe that voluntarily opting your computer into a bot net to join in an illegal attack on a corporation is "achieving" anything.
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  • Klandathu
    Klandathu
    Joined: Apr 2008
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 2:20 pm
    @Rinnon: From what I can gather from your comment (I'm having some trouble understanding what exactly you're trying to say): you think I support and endorse what these people do, is that correct? If that's the case, I'd really like to know where you're drawing this conclusion from. If my wording in my previous comment was a little murky, allow me to clarify: I do not support or condone what these tools in Anonymous do. They really need to find better hobbies.

    If I'm misunderstanding what it is you're saying, I do apologize.
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  • Klandathu
    Klandathu
    Joined: Apr 2008
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 2:24 pm
    @Rinnon: From what I can gather from your comment (I'm having some trouble understanding what exactly you're trying to say): you think I support and endorse what these people do, is that correct? If that's the case, I'd really like to know where you're drawing this conclusion from. If my wording in my previous comment was a little murky, allow me to clarify: I do not support or condone what these tools in Anonymous do. They really need to find better hobbies.

    If I'm misunderstanding what it is you're saying, I do apologize.
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  • Battousai8
    Battousai8
    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 4:13 pm
    I second Brettimus...
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  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 7:21 pm
    actually anonymous isn't attacking anywhere near PSN they just doing that to spite them and turn PSN users towards hatred against anonymous. so having innocent civilians suffer while two power players go after each other is so typical.
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  • Rinnon
    Rinnon
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 7:26 pm
    No no Klandathu, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. My comment about immaturity was not directed at you, but at the person you said you were talking to on Facebook. From your comment, I got the impression that you were not impressed with this person you were having the discussion with, and I was wholeheartedly agreeing with you.
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  • Klandathu
    Klandathu
    Joined: Apr 2008
    Posted: Apr 21st, 2011 at 8:36 pm
    @Rinnon: No problem. I suppose some things can get lost in translation when reading them as opposed to hearing it from someone in person.
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  • devaldogz
    devaldogz
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Apr 22nd, 2011 at 8:24 am
    Well...good thing there is so much to unlock in Mortal Kombat while they fix this crap.
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  • StudioTan
    StudioTan
    Joined: Jan 2010
    Posted: Apr 22nd, 2011 at 9:40 pm
    I don't know about you guys but I can use netflix without signing onto the network. My friends can too. A prompt will come up stating that I must sign in, and it will pop up a few more times but after that it loads up and works just fine. I've been watching netflix on my PS3 over the course of this entire fiasco. Twilight Zone marathon for me!!
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