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Sony Hacks Continue: PlayStation Hit By Lizard Squad Attack

Posted by samzenpus on from the hits-keep-coming dept.

An anonymous reader writes Hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for shutting down the PlayStation Network, the second large scale cyber-attack on the Sony system in recent weeks. Although apparently unrelated, the outage comes just weeks after the much larger cyber-attack to the tech giant's film studios, Sony Pictures, which leaked confidential corporate information and unreleased movies.The group claiming to have taken down PSN today, Lizard Squad, first appeared earlier this year with another high-profile distributed denial of service attack on Xbox Live and World of Warcraft in August. The hacker collective claimed that this attack was just a 'small dose' of what was to come over the Christmas period.

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  1. Sony needs to invest in their IT by danbuter · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously, how can a billion dollar company that does tons of computer stuff not have a near-impregnable website?

  2. Hara Kiri by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I don't understand is that Sony is headquartered in Japan. JAPAN. Their work ethic and honor against disgrace is known the world over even today.

    You'd think they would be able to put security over profit. And you'd think someone would have to commit seppuku over this already. I expect to open the news and at least a dozen pinkies got clipped or something. Christ.