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[pastrami]

But what you wrote is completely false.

Huh, funny that.

 

[BeforeU]

WTF?

wtf indeed

 

[Asgaro]

Hack the planet!

 

[legacyzero]

 

[Wishmaster92]

According to Twitter one member has been caught already?

What? Already? These guys are too good to be caught.

Spoiler

lmfao

 

[JCizzle]

PS4 set as primary console, are you game sharing, etc

Yes. No.

It worked 15 minutes ago.

 

[TyrantII]

Oh wow, these people are silly little children.

Btw, I'm no computer expert, but DDoS attacks just means overloaded servers, right? And not account info being compromised? Either way I'm removing my cc info from PSN the first chance I get, but would still like to know for sure.

Thats a good idea for any service, especially if there are other means of funding such as instant PSN funding cards.

Sony did already have a major break in, but no one is really truly safe anymore. Ask Target, or TJ Max, or a whole host of other companies.

They cheap out IT thinking they're safe enough, when in reality you;re only paying to mitigate issues as much as possible when you're targeted.

That said, this isn't a security issue.

 

[OgTheClever]

Which..work.

Oh, I presumed single player would at least be accessible from a disc? Regardless I hope this situation passes over soon, it's a bank holiday weekend for god's sake!

 

[Eggbok]

Hi I think there are threads already on this

There are but they seem to only be focused on PSN, instead of the whole picture.

 

[Skyzard]

This sucks, hope they get caught and thrown in jail soon!

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[Meffer]

Same thing will happen like what happened to lulzsec. They'll get uncovered by some other hacker and be exposed.

 

[WarpathDC]

Mother F#Y$ers, I just bought a digital version of PS4 Pinball Arcade and sold my physical copy on Ebay due to the PSN sale. I wasn't sure I bought the right version and when I went to play it kept just saying "attempting to activate". I thought it was because I had conflicting files with the disc version so I deleted both the save and the install file. This is before I saw the DDoS attack. I hope my save is in the cloud..

 

[linkeds]

Right, but when there's a problem with my car, I don't assume that the car is a defective piece of junk. I assume something went wrong with it. I don't assume anything else, unless I get a recall notice.

People ASSUMING that this is a hack are definitely being ignorant, and I'm not sure why you are defending ignorance.

some people are missing the main point of my post regardless of them assuming that i'm defending customer's who do not know the difference between a DDoS attack and general term of "hack".

my main point is that, regardless of why PSN went down, whether it be a DDoS attack, hack, or some guy spilled his morning coffee on a magic power button on a west coast server grid.

All the customer sees is that they cannot connect to PSN. They go through normal network diagnostics of checking if the wifi on their phone works. after this, your perfect statement of "something went wrong with it" is the perfect analogy for the situation.

the main reason i'm posting is because it seems that there is an arguement present that "its a DDoS attack so i have no reason to blame Sony for this".

the average joe doesn't know what a DDoS attack is so most likely terms the situation as a Hack. The average consumer thinks "something went wrong at Sony". PR at Sony knows this is what they think too, regardless of what the minority at GAF are saying. Some of us here aren't the "general consumer" and are more inclined to know whats actually going on, I'm assuming that you think 100% of PS4 owners should have your level or knowledge to come up with this opinion as well. If this were the case, I'd have no job

 

[Triggerhappytel]

DDoS attacks aren't hacking, are they? Isn't it just where they overload and crash the servers? Let's not give these dickheads more credit than they deserve.

Edit - I'm referring to the quote in the OP which says they're a hacker group.

 

[gogogow]

EU PSN - except for the store - works. Still can't play Garden Warfare, it says it can't reach EA Servers...

Eh, I think things are getting worse. A few hours ago, the store actually worked, I could access it via the PS4 and PC (can't access the SEN store now, keeps loading). Now even the store doesn't work on consoles?

Do a internet connection test, it will most likely crap out during the PSN sing-in test.

 

[JMTHEFOX]

And I thought the community in Crossfire was awful.

 

[DidntKnowJack]

The issue is the leap from "Oh they're being DDOS'd today for all we know they could be hacked next weak" is an absolutely absurd leap of "logic".

It's not like it's unprecedented.

And maybe I sound a little out of control. But not being able to access my account info makes me nervous and a bit twitchy, hence my borderline frantic tone.

 

[Yaphett Kotto]

They must feel proud. I would be.

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

Smart man. Its just a pain in the ass to enter it in every time you want to purchase something. But I guess you could give that a first world problem hash tag.

Yeah, it does. And good. Its always a good idea not to store card data even though it may be inconveniencing to put it in.

Okay cool. The funny thing is I knew not to put in my info, but due to laziness and stubbornness I said, "screw it!" and stored my cc info anyway because it was (as mentioned) inconvenient to put it in every time. I'll use this attack as a warning.

 

[vypek]

EU PSN - except for the store - works. Still can't play Garden Warfare, it says it can't reach EA Servers...

I connect to the EA servers but there is practically no one online anyways since everyone else is having trouble. I'm US for PSN

 

[Surge]

Back up for me here on the east coast

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Was hoping that when I woke up this morning, I'd find this had ended. I'm now disappointed.

 

[convo]

Sooo why are they also targeting Blizzard and Path of Exile?Did they give any other reasons than"lulz".Although it would be funny if those guys following them on twitter because of this were also players of the affected games.

 

[PranooY]

Back up for me. (Asia)

 

[Nostremitus]

Are they claiming they're doing it for ISIS on all of them, or just Sony?

 

[NoMoreTrolls]

Same thing will happen like what happened to lulzsec. They'll get uncovered by some other hacker and be exposed.

Yep. Just gotta hope that there's a hacker that reeeeeally wants to play some D3 on PS4 to put a stop to this bullshit.

 

[Phear]

Sooo why are they also targeting Blizzard and Path of Exile?Did they give any other reasons than"lulz".Although it would be funny if those guys following them on twitter because of this were also players of the affected games.

So Kuffar can't play their favourite Games o/

 

[Dhruv_hanom]

According to Twitter one member has been caught already?

Do you have a link for that?

 

[Nokterian]

Ok i am confused is this really run by 15 year olds?

 

[Yaphett Kotto]

There are two or three accounts laughing at them saying they had been caught. Might be nothing but found it odd.

Ah, ok. Makes sense.

 

[Derphoof]

They tried downing Steam at one point last night. Only caused some lag and got a few servers down.

Script kiddies gunna script, yo.

 

[staticneuron]

Cause attacking a Japanese company for American politics makes so much sense when there is a lovely big American console company.

Guess he/they were wanting to affect the bigger install base.

Could be. But I would imagine trying to DDOS MS would be as tough as trying to DDOS google because I hear they have created software and service specifically to stop DDOS.

Nothing is completely safe either and hearing news like Feb's 400Gbps DDOS attack, simply goes to show that the numbers these companies have to fend off are pretty huge.

 

[Slayven]

Whats the point of this?

 

[davepoobond]

They should hack Microsoft's 90 billion dollars and transfer to Isis. Maybe that way when we blow up Isis we will recover the money and put it back into the economy. That should work

What a bunch of idiots. Isis is scum and they are aligning themselves with them?

 

[jon bones]

lol, kids

i imagine this is as big as there sphere of influence will ever get, so they're reveling in it. pretty childish and dumb thing to do, and they'd be better off using their summer vacations to exercise and get some sun in.

 

[ReaperXL7]

Hi I think there are threads already on this

There is one for PSN that I was able to find, I did not see one about all of the other services

 

[dark_chris]

What a bunch of losers. Wow.

 

[Darknight]

Are they claiming they're doing it for ISIS on all of them, or just Sony?

I think its a joke and you shouldnt take it seriously. Like they are using that to get people to ignore what they are doing and blame that other group. It a bunch of kids most likely that are not related to terrorist organizations.

 

[Ponn]

Is this group really associated with ISIS? I'm picturing FBI/CIA coming down hard on these guys now because of the tweets and busting in and finding some nerdy ass kids who start crying it was just some big joke.

 

[Teknoman]

Has there ever been an instance where a hacker group screwed with other hackers that just seem to want to wreak havoc?

 

[Nyteshade517]

Was at least loading up the Friends list for a couple of minutes but seems like it's back down for me...East Coast US

 

[PranooY]

They tried downing Steam at one point last night. Only caused some lag and got a few servers down.

Script kiddies gunna script, yo.

They did? Link?
And is this the same group who DDOSed blizzard last week?

 

[qa_engineer]

What a bunch of losers. Wow.

This should be the thread title. Lol

 

[WarpathDC]

These guys really want to be waterboarded I guesss

 

[Ferr986]

Its working for me right now. Currently playing Warframe. It took me a couple of tries to enter though.

 

[mgs2master2]

Is neogaf next to be hit? I'm scured guise

 

[NegativeCero]

Bunch of dicks. What is the point of this?

 

[Zerokku]

It's not like it's unprecedented.

And maybe I sound a little out of control. But not being able to access my account info makes me nervous and a bit twitchy, hence my borderline frantic tone.

Do you know how many times Blizzard has been DDoS'd like this in just the past couple years? (Hint: A shitton)

Have they ever been hacked on any large scale in the past few years? No.

DDoSing happens. Its shitty. Its stupid. Its nothing to worry about (per se).

 

[FloweryMarston]

linking the DDoS attack with ISIS. Really smart idea!

 

[qa_engineer]

These guys really want to be waterboarded I guesss

more like they want to meet a judo chop from liam neeson. Also greetings fellow redskin fan.