Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack 575
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H_Fisher writes "In a letter to Congress, Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony's board of directors, blames hacker group Anonymous for making possible the theft of gamers' personal information. 'What is becoming more and more evident is that Sony has been the victim of a very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack designed to steal personal and credit card information for illegal purposes,' Hirai wrote. He also indicated that Sony waited two days before notifying the FBI of the theft."
oh Shit! (Score:5, Funny)
Anonymous? (Score:5, Funny)
hey!
I didn't do crap!
Re:Yeah right (Score:5, Funny)
"carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated"
These are not words I think of when discussing Anonymous. Give me a break.
"carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated"
These are not words I think of when discussing Sony.
Re:shame game (Score:5, Funny)
Kinda like the guy who broke into my car and stole my radio/mp3 player was anonymous.
Re:shame game (Score:2, Funny)
Actually it was Anonymous Coward. My bad. I just wanted to play "global thermonuclear war" and suddenly I got all these credit card numbers.
Not an ideal strategy (Score:4, Funny)
Getting anonymous mad at them might not be the best strategy for beefing up the image of their security, though.
Re:shame game (Score:5, Funny)
I blame Sony for not having security sufficient to prevent such an attack in the first place. What, did we have a Win '08 server facing the 'net without a firewall??
No, it was a PS3 that used to serve as a Linux firewall. Unfortunately they 'patched' it and now it doesn't run Linux anymore.
Apparently (Score:5, Funny)
Sony would have blamed Bin Laden had he not been killed by the US earlier this week. They had to find some other scapegoat so that's why it took so long for their official blaming.
Re:Anonymous? (Score:5, Funny)
hey! I didn't do crap!
Coward
Hahahahaa - incompetence ? blame anonymous. (Score:4, Funny)