The PlayStation Network is down across the globe, with users across Europe and the United States reporting an inability to log in or use the PSN. While Sony says it's looking into the matter, the company acknowledges it could be a cyberattack.
On Sony Europe's official site, the company posted the following notice:
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. For further information, please refer to updates on PlayStation.com, here on PlayStation.Blog and via our @PlayStationEU twitter feed.
Sony was recently the target of "Anonymous," a loose collective of internet pranksters and activists, due to its lawsuit over hacking of the PlayStation 3. The group (or really, a nameless person claiming to be a member of the group) issued a statement saying Sony "abused the judicial system in an attempt to censor information about how your products work", "victimized [its] own customers merely for possessing and sharing information" and of violated "the privacy of thousands of innocent people who only sought the free distribution of information."
Since Sony settled the lawsuit that caused the initial threat from Anonymous, you'd think the hackers would have moved on to other targets, but perhaps not. As of yet, no group has taken credit for downing the PSN, and the results are not in as to what caused the actual outage. We'll give you more information as it develops.
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obanana1
i tell ya if anonymous didnt cause this then it must be the new cloud saving $@@t might of been too heavy on the networks servers
mdevlin3107
THIS IS FREAKING REDICULOUS! I BOUGHT MY PS3 TO PLAY GAMES AND USE PSN, NOT TO HACK THE DAMN THING!! I KNEW WHAT I WAS GETTING INTO WHEN I BOUGHT THE SYSTEM. STUPID HACKERS, GET A DAMN JOB AND LEAVE MY PS3 ALONE!
f00dstamp
Do you guys not know 4chan or something?
JRX75
ah-oh!!!!!!!!!
DaZeoNeR420
His username is U-P-S. He's been talking about hacking the network for months now. I can't believe that sony cant catch this poor excuse for a hacker
Elijah_117
hmm this is the second time this has happened to Sony, just recently too. Microsoft hasnt had as many problems if any like this, but Sony is still better with the free online but if PSN is always at risk i might just stick to my 360 and save the hassle. ilu sony but how is it so easy to hack you?
lildreamz
dude, i just wanna play killzone online. whoever anon is, he sucks.
zizu091
Obviously the organization or group of hackers that are conducting this attack are a bunch of stubborn little people that for some reason think that attacking PSN and leaving millions of PSN users without service for a day or two it's delivering the right kind of message. when in reality all it's doing is validating Sony's point of view on Jailbreaking and piracy. More power to Sony, they have proven that even though not all hackers have bad intentions, some of them will try to engage in illegal activities not thinking about all the other millions of users being affected. Who ever "Anonymous" is trying to impress, is definitely not working.When this is all over, us, the gamers will go back to playing games, we won't even remember what you did while you battle your way out of court and you're little hacker friends will go down even more without support from the gamers. -Happy 15 minutes of fame !@@holes!-
-A pissed off gamer.
Aerindel_Prime
Death to the Cloud! Bring it down, bring it all down!
crocodilius
Hackers are so funny, always bringing a knife to a gun fight.
I bet these kids all watched Matrix and now think they're Neo in real life or something and that's what gets them off.
FuzzofPekinopolis
If it turns out to be hackers, why do any of you feel your system is safer than the others? Both sides need to quit pushing there loyalist lines on everyone else, and realize if left unchecked, no system will be invulnerable.
That's a big if about the hackers. But honestly, why do PS3 and Xbox360 gamers hate each other? I play on my 360 and I don't hate PS3 gamers. I only hate when someone tries to take a story and twist it to make there system come out on top. Each system has it's positives and negatives. That's what is great about technology, we have choices.
Don't think for one second, no matter what happened here, it could not just as easily be your gaming network next time.
InnerRise
This is why Sony FAILS.
Viva La Anonymous !
Atavax
you pick an extreme example because every position on an extreme is usually the same. if you use an example in the metaphor that half the people agree with, then the message is lost. For example if you compare Sony to the Detroit Tigers, everyone's view of the detroit tigers is different and it makes the message unclear. I am in no way saying its as bad a child pornography. I was saying in an example where you view as body as destructive the people supporting it aren't truly innocent, and its impossible to disrupt the destructive party without disrupting the people that rely on it.
Rain3x
MIGHT be an attack is now solid proof that it IS 100% FACTUALLY AN ATTACK. Thanks (most) G4 commenters!
Fulldemon0716
ThiS threads on many different subjects of law and freedom to protest.
Especially when we live in a world where no one pays attention to protest.
wrong or not. The main way anyone can hurt Sony is through there consumer.
If this was done in a physical way no one would notice and Sony would barely have anything to worry about.
Now regardless of there apparent objective.
Their method may be one of the only way for there message to be actually heard and debated.
How mean how else can you hurt them with any other way except cutting off their very costumers from using there services.
Think of it as handcuffing your self to a tree to save a forest.
Or a massive sit in to save something of importance.
The methodology has changed but still gets the same results.
Attention from media
Attention from the public
Attention to the subject matter.
Now on a personal note:
Why did I trade in my 360!!!???
Now I can't play with my PS3!! you cruel monsters!!!!
stoneskin
This is actually a serious comment unlike most others that you'll see on any of these boards.
This isn't the first time Sony's been down, it's funny that people are jumping to "It's Anonymous who's attacking PSN!" simply because of attacks of Sony's sites recently which were because of them trying to sue Geohotz's life away for pointing out a major security flaw. Sony needs to suck it up and fix their PSN so that it's not as vulnerable and unstable, not for themselves but for their loyal customers/users.
Sure, it could be some band of hackers attacking PSN, but Sony shouldn't play the innocent victim card because they themselves aren't providing proper security for their console and anytime they have a problem they try to sue their way out of it instead of actually work to fix it. Sony's gone from a king of consoles to a whining lawsuit whore in the past few years, what's sad is that it's the players often paying for it.
Although.. hypothetically let's say it's Sony's major error that's causing this problem, if it were you who were the owner, wouldn't you blame it on hackers rather than yourself? Yea, you probably would, even if you were a good person/company, you still have stockholders to think about on that level. Sony lied about the attack on Sony websites when it first happened, saying it was a "routine maintenance" if anyone was paying attention.
Point being wait and find out the actual truth.
(P.S. I'm fairly sure this will be hidden because someone's going to have a problem with anything bad being said about Sony. Blind fanboys tend to jump to defend before thinking, just remember that even if you're a lover of Sony it doesn't mean you have to be a blind fanboy.)
*Also I'm not coming back to read the replies to this comment, but feel free to post what you think about the situation AND or situations like these with companies and maybe it will become a viable conversation post for others, OR just attack it with some childish console wars banter like we're so used to seeing on these boards.
gamerzack95
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shadow24X
Sony seems to have money and their own agenda on their minds..... What about the gamers the people who pay their paychecks and buy the games and systems they release its about time we voiced our opinion and let sony know that gaming should be fun we should be allowed to find glitches and have fun we should be allowed to trade without restrictions and do what we want look at the constitution and read it. i agree with alot of people sony you are screwing up peoples fun let us enjoy ourselves not you control what fun we have.
Shadow24X
this is messed up all i can say is xbox seems like a better sytem to be with right now sony seems to have taken away our freedom on xbox people hack it all the time and get away sony stops us from being able to use the system which we paid for i say that sony has really done the consumers and people who worked hard and bought the gaming system for entertainment purposes wrong. I'm thinkin bout goin to xbox where ther are no issues and we can do as we pls thanks sony for ruining our fun and making gaming like a prison sentence unenjoyable and boring.
darthhunter
no, the hackers are the joke.
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