Earlier this week, activist group Anonymous threatened to go after Sonyâs online presence in retaliation for the companyâs legal actions against PS3 hackers. The next day, the PlayStation Network went down. Coincidence?
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It may be, but then, it doesnât sound like it was, Sony today conceding the possibility of the obvious and in a statement issued to GameSpot admits that it is âcurrently investigating [the network instability], including the possibility of targeted behavior of an outside party. If this is indeed caused by such act, we want to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service. Our engineers are working to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customersâ continued support.â
Getting things back up to full speed shouldnât be too hard for Sony, as Anonymous claims to have stopped its attack on the PS3âs online service, a statement on the groupâs website reading âWe realize that targeting the PSN is not a good idea. We have therefore temporarily suspended our action, until a method is found that will not severely impact Sony customers.â
âAnonymous is on your side, standing up for your rights. We are not aiming to attack customers of Sony. This attack is aimed solely at Sony, and we will try our best to not affect the gamers, as this would defeat the purpose of our actions. If we did inconvenience users, please know that this was not our goal.â
Sony acknowledges possible denial-of-service attack [GameSpot]
