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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?

    1. Re:Sony needs to invest in their IT by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Are you kidding?

      Laziness and greed, and an indifference to security.

      This seems like a recurring thing ... I'm pretty sure Sony has been hacked several times over the last few years.

      If security doesn't make you money, and you have no penalty for being incompetent at it ... why spend money on it?

      When companies start having penalties for getting hacked and leaking people's information, they might do something. In the mean time, if all they have to say is "oops, sorry" don't expect anything to change.

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      Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  2. Since when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since when is a DDOS a hack?