Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 6, 2011 @11:26AM from the attack-of-the-month-club dept.

RedEaredSlider writes "The hacker collective Anonymous has made good on its threat to attack Sony, having launched a distributed denial-of-service attack on Wednesday afternoon. The attack is revenge for the legal action taken against another hacker who modified a PlayStation 3. Sony Computer Entertainment America filed suit against George Hotz, also known as Geohot. Hotz had released a firmware modification that allowed a Sony PlayStation 3 to run other operating systems. Sony had removed that functionality some months before. The suit is still pending."

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Re:hacker collective? by kelemvor4 · 2011-04-06 11:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Cracker collective? Isn't that like the KKK?
Re:I don't approve of the DDoS by halowolf · 2011-04-06 16:47 · Score: 3, Funny

I was wondering why it has been taking so long to log into PSN the last little while. The amusing thing was getting a message saying something of the like "It's taking a long time to log in, check your internet connection".

Hmm no Sony, you check yours.