PSN Hacked 80710A06 8002A203

[Astro]

I reckon 4 is a not on the table data security is paramount for all multinationals that'll be well safe.

LOL, what world do you live in?
Banks get hacked - YES banks, online services, play.com has been hacked several times, if it's on the network that connected to the internet - it's vulnerable.

The money side is most likely not even done by Sony they just hand it over to VISA or Master Card, much like how foursquare and others rely on Amazons Cloud for hosting.

[Symonator]

While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we’re able to get the service completely back up and running. Thank you very much for your patience while we work to resolve this matter. Please stay tuned to this space for more details, and we’ll update you again as soon as we can.

[redVENGEANCE]

yip its still down, its gonna be a lovely weekend though so stay away from the console for a few days yeah its a bit of a ball ache its down but its not the end of the world is it?

are you fucking nuts?

[Symonator]

[DJ-Daz]

Several days eh? Not good PR for sony especially over the long weekend.
I can only hope that annonymous HAVE attacked their servers, at least that way they can blame someone else.


Update: Quote from annonymous IRC:

We Are NOT attacking sony, psn or any sony sites
Asking if we are will result in a ban from our irc
Psn is down because of sony NOT because of anon
Our DDoS attacks on sony have stopped
So fuck off asking

[DJ-Daz]

Rumour news:
the problem lies in Japan and an investigation is underway.

[Astro]

Some of their Mission critical gear must have went down to go on this long.

[DJ-Daz]

Some of their Mission critical gear must have went down to go on this long.

I've heard that the earthquake caused damage to more nuclear powerstations than just Fukushima, if other reactors are struggling then it stands to reason the power cuts are inevitable. Even with generators it's still impossible to keep a 100% uptime in those catastrophic conditions.

[InfiniteStates]

I reckon 4 is a not on the table data security is paramount for all multinationals that'll be well safe.

I didn't understand a word of that.

I would hope Sony has PSN servers outside of Japan. No wonder it takes so fucking long to synch trophies sometimes...

[DJ-Daz]

It's now more than 24 hours later and PSN is still down.
I have just logged into http://www.ps3trophies.com and updated my trophies, I'm not sure how, but it did get the latest trophies, so something is still running somewhere.

No updates on the EU Blog or US Blog, still the same information, it'll be a couple of days before PSN service resumes.

[YorkshirePud]

more time for wanking lads

[DJ-Daz]

new code: 8002A203
At least the code has changed, but no indication of what it means... so I'll make one up:

8002A203: It's easter, it's warm and sunny, now get the fuck outside and do something else.

[theENIGMATRON]

Come on!!!!
Get out there and enjoy some of that sun!! you must all be like Milk Bottles
sitting there hitting that X button attempting to sign in 1440 times!!!!

1 sign in per minute = 60 per hour, = 24 hours = 1440 attempts!!!

Leave the servers down and use it as an excuse to go and have sex in the back garden

[InfiniteStates]

Leave the servers down and use it as an excuse to go and have sex in the back garden

Couple of candles and we're good to go...




(Note - that's not actually my garden )

[DJ-Daz]

Latest update:

An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. In order to conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward, we turned off PlayStation Network & Qriocity services on the evening of Wednesday, April 20th. Providing quality entertainment services to our customers and partners is our utmost priority. We are doing all we can to resolve this situation quickly, and we once again thank you for your patience. We will continue to update you promptly as we have additional information to share.

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/04/ ... -services/

first off it was planned maintenence, then it was down due to a possible hack then it was something else, then it was a Japanese server crash, and now someone hacked the servers so they switched everything off?

I dont think it would take this long to perform a forensic investigation to find the culprit and method.