Sony under DDOS attack.

[chidarake]

isn't psn required for ps4 players to play online now..?

anyway its a mute point because this hacker group is retarded as of course they are making money form us, there a business and we all know it. they aren't exactly hiding that.

all this does is piss people off that now cant spend there free time in a way that they feel like doing.

[aerolol]

The PSN required to play online on PS4 is the free one.

[RyujinUzikin]

And trolling people who aren't responsible for this "greed" have to pay for it? This is not a protest, this is terrorism.

[Maero]

the one's always doing the attack either this little jerks or anonymous always just do it for their own goals which is for attention and such.
While i do not blame Sony i also wonder if by now since it's not the first time happening if they should not have better measures put in place.
Also why is it must always get this or psn maintenance info from SE and not Sony, lol

[Alicaster]

They DDoS'd, which isn't really a hack. This doesn't appear to me to be about about political activism, the same group has been active the last few days "attacking" Blizzard, Runescape, and League of Legends. For them to claim now to be condemning Sony for being "greedy," (Even though they are the only network for console gaming that does not charge for online play,) Would in all honesty seem out of character from the past few cyber vandalism of theirs where it appeared to be out of nowhere, nor did they give any political backing to the reasoning in prior events.
And then you have an actual hacking collective like Anonymous, (Whom, Lizard Squad had actually claimed to be affiliated with,) who for who denied any such affiliation and actually degraded the reasoning, and quality of the vandalism on their IRC. A group like Anonymous whose primary focus is to be a cyber political superpower comes back around to bad mouth these new comers.
In all honesty, just seems like a group of high school kids who have a little too much free time on their hands.

[scarletfoxxy]

is it easy to send a DDoS attack? i mean how does one do it? it seems expensive. Like you gotta have a butt load of accounts and computers but i'm a computer idiot so i don't even understand how someone can organize to do this and for a few extra hits? All that extra attention they get will die off once we're able to play online again.

[Zender]

From what i know, to initialize it could be really expensive, but it requires multiple people to download and then initiate it. I agree with Alicaster too, despite their claims, there are too many holes in them lol, Sony being greedy? play station plus is required to play certain online games sure, but you now get free to plays on there, and play plus more than pays for itself, DMC, Dead space 3, Grid2, shift 2 are just some of the games over the course of the year i myself have got, and its reasonable to purchase to at £40 for a years worth =p

What they don't realize is they have become public enemy #1 in the gamer world, and it only takes one skilled hacker/cyber crime employee to find them.

[Roofjp1]

So when I try to launch the application on my ps4 it just goes to a black screen, is that the result of this hacking??

[Alicaster]

Unfortunately, Roofjp, yes. The PSN is down until they can sort it out.

Also there are domains that you can buy/rent that will bot a DDoS.

[RyuRoots]

People like this are scum. Even if I thought there was even an iota of sincerity in this "fighting the man" BS they spew (I don't), the truth is the only people you're really hurting are paying customers who just want to play video games. In a perfect world their computers would get hacked to explode and they'd end up like a typical Redshirt. =P