Anonymous Claims to Have Hacked PSN, Sony Says No

Yesterday, a member of Anonymous claimed via the hacktivist group's Twitter that he had hacked Sony's PlayStation Network and had access to a 50 GB database of user account information, including emails and passwords. The ordeal brought back plenty of bad juju from the PSN outage of 2011, which was also caused by hacking.

PSN users before you raise your angry mob torches for a Sony witch hunt, take a breath. Your information is safe.

After hearing of the hack, Sony responded via the PlayStation Twitter feed that "We can confirm that the recent claim that PSN was illegally hacked & that customer PWs and email addresses were accessed is completely false."

Indeed, the Anon member had been bluffing the entire time. The pastebin file that the Anon member had included in his tweet as "evidence" that he had hacked the PSN turns out to be the same that was dumped back in 2011.

Don't worry, PSN members, there's no repeat of last year's PSN disaster.

  • hrhuffnpuff
    Well, call me a tad cynical, but instead of hacking PSN, they should try and hack into DoD and get some real info on Area 51 or some other clandestine base or post (if you are Army). That will make it worth there while and it will be more interesting.
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  • officeguy
    One word to this guy.... wannabe
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  • internetlad
    INTERNET NEWS!
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  • freggo
    hrhuffnpuffWell, call me a tad cynical, but instead of hacking PSN, they should try and hack into DoD and get some real info on Area 51 or some other clandestine base or post (if you are Army). That will make it worth there while and it will be more interesting.
    And it will be interesting to see what the DoD will do to hunt them down like the criminals they are. :-)
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  • hrhuffnpuff
    freggoAnd it will be interesting to see what the DoD will do to hunt them down like the criminals they are. :-)
    Oddly enough, it would be quite a hilarity, if the alleged criminal is a 13 y/o prodigy from Bangalore, India.
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  • husker
    Am I the only one who knows how to apply simple logic? How can Anonymous claim anything? If there was a way to verify the claim actually came from an official Anonymous source, that person would be in jail by now.
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  • xaed
    Ideally, wouldn't a successful crack be a situation where the cracker gets away without the target even being aware he was in the system; thus making the target say "no, it wasn't hacked."? Just my 2 cents.
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  • master_chen
    Anonymous Claims to Have Hacked PSN, Sony Says No
    , Nobody Cares.
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  • freggo
    hrhuffnpuffOddly enough, it would be quite a hilarity, if the alleged criminal is a 13 y/o prodigy from Bangalore, India.
    If a 13 y/o can hack the DoD we'd certainly have to ask ourselves who the hell is in charge of security at the DoD :-)

    Than again, I'd not be surprised as the powers in charge are usually well behind the realities of the real world.
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  • master_chen
    hrhuffnpuff13 y/o prodigy from Bangalore, India.
    Is that....O_o...is that...by any chance...a reference to the "Good Will Hunting"? o_O'
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