Monday, December 8, 2014

PlayStation online store, victim of a new cyber attack – La Vanguardia

Tokyo. (Writing and agencies) .- The online shop Sony PlayStation has remained for part of Monday i naccesible for all users world, which is the latest cyber against Japanese electronics and entertainment company. In a statement, Sony said the problem lasted about two hours and added under investigation as the facts have been produced. PlayStation announced via Twitter the problem: “We are aware of the problems that some users are experiencing, and we are working to solve.” In a later tweet, they warned that the service was back in operation.

Sony has been receiving various cyber these dates. Last week, the computer systems of Sony Pictures Entertainment have already been the victim of a telematic attack. Hackers gained access to almost all business data Hollywood studio, after which they were exposed in the new information network on films not yet released, and economic data from the corporate and private data also economic nature of stars like James Franco, Seth Rogen Sylvester Stallone. At first, it was suspected that the attack came from North Korea but later rejected that possibility. According to recent reports, the attack on the branch of the American film industry in the Asian giant had perpetrated from a luxury hotel in Thailand.

Monday’s attack was claimed by the group of hackers who call Lizard Squad, known for his activism and aggressiveness. On his Twitter account has posted “PSN Login #offline #LizardSquad”. Recently, this same group of crackers (hackers) had also claimed responsibility for an attack on the website of Xbox Live. Like Sony, Microsoft then recognized incidents. Lizard Squad has already threatened to keep their attacks. “Unlike Santa Claus, we do not like to give all our Christmas one day. The entire month will be fun,” they tweeted.

This year, pirates have declared war on Sony and PlayStation. The challenge and not coincidentally coincides with the 20th anniversary of the launch of the first PlayStation console event that the company wants to promote particular. Last August, Lizard Squad said he had managed to deflect an American Airlines flight in which the president of the company was due to a bomb threat that had spread through Twitter. In parallel, they managed just block your web through cyber commonly known as denial of service, which is basically a massive sending information to a system, so this is overloaded and is forced to close. Everything suggests that the attack on Monday has also been of this kind.

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