PSN Attacked Again! (05.18.11 Post Update)

Hey there. The Playstation network has been attacked again!  This morning, once everyone was beginning to feel all warm and cozy over the mass Emailing that Sony sent out to their customers, the hackers got to work and infiltrated the "new and secure" PSN.  Now, the service is down while Sony works on fixing it.

Man... as a friend stated to me earlier, hackers are working to bring Sony to it's knees.  The question I'm having is why pick on Sony when Microsoft has their own online network as well?  Does this just mean that Xbox Live is the more secure network while Sony is half assing their security that is allowing hackers into their network?  I don't know Sony... but you are losing major brownie points with gamers everywhere. 

This past month, sales for the PS3 are down, games for the PS3 are down, and Gamestop has let it be known that PS3's are being traded in for Xbox 360's.  If you're a loner and love playing games by yourself, then you don't have a problem, but the majority of gamers are online playing popular multiplayer games such as Black Ops and if they can't get their fix through a PS3, they will get it through a Xbox 360.  Get it together, Sony.  You're losing this battle and you're beginning to lose your fan base.  Later!

Read up on the latest of the PSN disaster over at G4.

Update 06.03.11

I received this Email from metallman.com reader Erik and he managed to shed some light as to why PS3 has been under attack.

"Sony worked with the FBI earlier this year (or last year) to bust a German man who was very good at hacking PS3s. He did some sort of jailbreaking or whatever -- your regular acts of "piracy" and what-have-you.

Anyway, Sony and friends got the guy into custody and some people from /b/ didn't take this too well. They called it an attack against all pirates (or free media) and said they'd do what the internet hate-machine 4-chan does: hack sh*t.

I've heard these hackers are a splinter group from 4-chan, but then I've heard the opposite. The interbutts is both a great and awful place for scuttlebutt. :\ "

So what do you think?  Is Sony under attack because they raised a red flag with hacker groups?  Interesting, no? Especially since they were under attack again yesterday.  Thanks for the info Erik!  Later!