Thursday, May 5, 2011

Attack on Playstation Network: Sony accuses web guerrilla Anonymous

Who was it? Criminals were able to copy data of 100 million Sony-customers, the company now publishes a transcript of the defensive struggle. The Group makes the Web Guerilla Anonymous complicity in the theft. Sony remains the only indication of this: a file called "Anonymous". It sounds so good: The loosely organized guerrilla Anonymous web has repeatedly shot down the websites of film and music associations.

Why should the activists are not responsible for the data theft at Sony? This impression Sony manager Kazuo Hirai in the night to Thursday published letter to U.S. lawmakers. It gives the web guerrillas were complicit in the theft. Anonymous had called for the Playstation Network on 16 April to inundate with requests and paralyze.

Anonymous wanted to protest against Sony's Playstation action against the hackers GeoHot. Hirai said Sony manager, during these attacks that criminals had penetrated into the systems, the records of more than 100 million customer accounts copied. Hirai claims that Anonymous, for their protests Sony employees were not the invaders discovered so quickly: "Our security teams were busy trying to defend the system against denial of service attacks that could have aggravated it, the invaders quickly note - maybe that was also the plan ".

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