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Topic subjectNah, it's got some legs
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254897, Nah, it's got some legs
Posted by BigReg, Tue Apr-26-11 07:42 AM
>Clearly you're fine with that.

Cause the Anon attacks were against their webservers. Like B9 said it's a possibility they would have taken everything down to make it stronger against DOS attacks, but a week? It's gotta be a bigger deal. Only think I case think of...actual theft:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/04/playstation-services-offline-a.html

"One suggestion, put forward on Reddit by a moderator of PlayStation hacking site PSX-Scene.com who goes by the name chesh420, suggests that Sony has taken its servers offline to prevent "extreme piracy of PSN content".

He claims that a piece of unofficial firmware, known as Rebug, allows users to gain access to the private PlayStation developer network. This also allows users to purchase games and other content for free using fake credit card numbers, since Sony doesn't check the authenticity of the numbers on the private network. He suggests Sony has shut down the PSN servers to secure them against this exploit.

These claims have not been verified, but New Scientist has seen instructions on PlayStation hacking forums for using the Rebug firmware to download free content, suggesting that the exploit is indeed possible.

Sony's lack of details on the cause of the outage has also lead to speculation that attackers may have gained access to users' credit card details. Sony spokesman Satoshi Fukuoka told PC World that the company hadn't yet determined whether such details have been compromised."