May 6, 2011

Cnet breaks story of a third attack against Sony planned

by

PSN Down
Cnet’s Erica Ogg is sighting that there will be plans of another cyberattack against Sony. They found this information in the Relay Chat channel used by the hackers told them that there will be a third major attack on Sony will be done to Sony’s website. They state the people involved state they are going to make public some or all of the information they are able to copy from the servers of Sony. This could include customer names, credit card numbers and addresses, according to the Cnet sources.
Several weeks ago the hacker group known as Anonymous targeted several Sony Web sites, including Sony.com and SonyStyle.com, with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in retaliation for what its members saw as Sony’s unfair legal action against hacker George Hotz. Two weeks ago Sony’s PlayStation Network, along with its Qriocity service and Sony Online, were the target of an attack that exposed the personal information of more than 100 million Sony customers. Sony was forced to shut down PSN, Qriocity, and Sony Online, and is currently working to bring them back online after rebuilding the security of its servers.

If Cnet’s sources are correct this will be a major blow to Sony and will start bring more lawsuits or even a class action lawsuit to the forefront for not being able to protect people’s information.


Categories: News


Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Follow Us:
Corporate HQ
35A Myrtle St.
Boston, MA
02114
Phone: (617) 263-0077