PSN - WTF is going on

[alom5]

haven't able to go online all day, c'mon sony, sort ur F***** selves out.

any one any ideas,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

they tweeted it may take a couple of days to sort out...........

sounds a bit like Service + on the Spiderbox.

Sony must be a bit bigger than the Darkman crew............surely?!!!



any1 else pissed with this??

[andy1weir]

to be honest i dont think its sonys fault this time , ive been reading reports saying its hacker group anonymous, others saying its just maintenance, even a server crash / corruption somewhere god knows whats happening with it


UPDATE, 16:49 GMT: Sony has admitted that its engineers are investigating the possibility that the PSN network has been hacked.

An outage of the Sony PlayStation Network today sparked rumours that the online gaming service may have been the subject of a DDoS attack by 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous.

The disruption has hit at a particularly bad time for Sony, coming on the day that cross-platform gaming hit Portal 2 is released for the company's PlayStation 3 console.

Users across Europe and in the US have reported problems logging into the PlayStation Network. The official EU PlayStation blog this morning informed users this was due to maintenance work, in a post on Twitter, and said updates on its progress would be available here.

But with no maintenance having been announced in advance, speculation is rife about the cause of the downtime.

Loose-knit collective Anonymous launched a string of DDoS attacks against high-profile Sony sites earlier this month under the banner 'OpSony'. The action was in retaliation for Sony's legal pursuit of hackers who opened up the its PlayStation 3 console to third-party firmware.

Targets included the PlayStation Network, but Anonymous soon announced it had "temporarily suspended" action against PSN, saying that it wanted to punish Sony, not its customers.



Read more: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/4/21/son...#ixzz1KCDvpAID

[alom5]

all the same though...........we are talking about SONY - massive as it is.

the networks down - fine.

but to take days over it is a joke mate.

if hackers have been at it or whatever..............the money they make from people............they should be able to put it back up without taking this long over it. thats the part that is the biggest joke.

not having a backup plan......Bollox!!!!

[andy1weir]

i agree with what your saying mate, but all depends on what exactly anonymous have done to them, i mean im as pissed as you are i cant get on psn either, just got homefront too and wanna play online!!!!

[alom5]

yeah. it's right peeing me off too

but they should have the best staff to counter this knda stuff dont you think??

most of the best hackers end up working for the big companies eventually...............hope they take this GEOHOT on their payroll so we can have peace and play again

[andy1weir]

i found out whats going on from another site this is the explanation....
It's Skynet becoming self aware. Didn't you all watch the movie?
Run for the hills, the robots are coming!!!!!

lloooool

[chroma]

Not Anonymous. Or at least 4chan aint behind it.
Buest guess is that steam has ~~~~ed their shit and that previous anonymous attacks fit as the perfect scapegoat.

Failing to take into account that steam and psn where never targets nor where the gamers.

That and IRC has been flooded with WTF is going on messages, not typical of a DDOS attack which requires the combined efforts of a stack of users all working towards the agenda.

[owenb]

im getting a bit pissed now i cant lie i bought mortal kombat portal 2 and tiger 2012 yesterday and i cant get the best out of them by going online ! granted psn doesnt go down much butt he fact that they arent updating us the people that pay their wages is beyond awful and im seriously questioning sony as a companies customer service skills!