Hackers are hackers. None of them can be trusted.

" This looks like the work of one Crash Override. "

" @Tesla said:

" This looks like the work of one Crash Override. "

Zero Cool. ^^ "

" @Jeust said:

" @Tesla said:

" This looks like the work of one Crash Override. "

Zero Cool. ^^ "

except for neither of them would hack anything that isnt the gibson. PSN is sort of a step down dont you think? lol "

Well if you can't trust hackers to be honest, I don't know where we are as a society...

" Why is it just the US legal system doing stuff about this? Last time I checked this affected the entire world. "

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that pretty much the only thing that we can confirm about the hackers is that they ARE, beyond a shadow of a doubt, anonymous.

" Sony better prop up some military AI into their ICE so even a Kuang grade virus can't infiltrate it.  "

Seems like a stupid move by anonymous, could spell there end in the long run.

So, Anonymous is to blame OR maybe someone is trying to make it look like it was them. They're an easy target for taking the fall on this one.

I knew this had the stink of Anon all over it.

I personally believe that anonops had nothing to do with this. Granted, I could hack someone and say it was anonymous, because that is technically what I would be. Either way, it really isn't difficult for anyone to have planted that file into the system, or even Sony could have done it when they were asked "who do you think did it?"

" The company became aware on April 19 at 4:15 p.m. "

Holy shit, a self aware Sony... that's scary.

Fuck what the internet is saying, Sony is handling this the way a company should. It's downright impressive. I hope it was Anonymous and I hope they're caught.

Still love seeing the blue names in the comments wildly defending Sony.

" It's too bad Sony didn't make this same information available to its 77 million consumers. "

But they did! They couldn't rush out with information that wasn't verified. It was very important that they were careful what they said. Nothing could have satisfied all you mongers. Stop blaming Sony and blame the hackers FFS.

hacking is so 1990s.

what difference would it have made if sony told it's "77 million" consumers "hey anon did it"?

in fact one could argue, they knew all the important parts the same time congress did, if not before.

Man, has it really already been 2 weeks of this?

I doubt it was anonymous. They're prettty obnoxious about what they do an would have yelled it out.

What i want to know is how the hell are people posting comments on the us playstation blog if you can't sign in...

A bunch of attention whores at 4chan did it? I doubt that... They would have bragged about it all over the internet the second they did it.

this has been one ridiculous ordeal, PS needs to fix their shit.

I hope we get some indictments and arrests out of this case. It's gonna be funny watching these hackers realize they can't hide behind the internet.

Wait, we have colored names? Why have I never noticed this?

" Anonymous are just a bunch of nerdy computer geeks who think they are doing justice, but instead they are wasting people's time and inconveniencing others. "

Jesus, Sony. Do you believe everything you read? Why would they claim no responsibility for the attack, then leave a note inside their servers saying it was them? It's not like they run any risk of being found under the name "Anonymous" so why the hell would they say they didn't have a part of it?

'We are legion', hahaha, at least they used a biblical reference for their stupid little joke.

" Wait, we have colored names? Why have I never noticed this? "

Still support ya Sony. Seem to be handling everything as they should. As for the last sentence in that article, it shows your intention when you write the headlines for these articles. I don't want your opinion, give me the news.

What does the FBI need to do to stop these "Anonymous" hacking assholes?  Here's hoping it doesn't take as long as it took to find Osama.

You all are so dramatic.  Don't worry about your information, that isn't what they were after.  This was all done to make Sony look bad.  Sony just found out it really was ANON who did it.  They have no interest in your CC numbers.

Sigh.  People, don't jump the gun just yet.  If I were some criminal fishing for personal data and credit card numbers for a company recently DDoS'd by Anonymous, I'd put a file in there leading Sony to believe it was Anonymous too - it would throw people off the scent.  But, you know, that plan would be stupid, because they wouldn't ever use that as evidence, and they won't use it to find the criminal. It would be unbecoming of someone who was educated enough in breaking into a giant company's databases.  

" Sigh.  People, don't jump the gun just yet.  If I were some criminal fishing for personal data and credit card numbers for a company recently DDoS'd by Anonymous, I'd put a file in there leading Sony to believe it was Anonymous too - it would throw people off the scent.  But, you know, that plan would be stupid, because they wouldn't ever use that as evidence, and they won't use it to find the criminal. It would be unbecoming of someone who was educated enough in breaking into a giant company's databases.  

Meaning the file in question is completely neutral in assessing who or what organization did this thing.  

"

If anyone really believes Anonymous had anything to do with it, I bet they also believe the Moon landings were faked. Sony just picked on Anonymous because of the Goehot deal. I highly doubt that with all their combined experience that Anonymous would do something as noobish as leaving a file on the server

Because if someone broke into my home and left a note that said "Jeff Gerstmann was here," clearly it had to have been Jeff, right?

" Just because they found a file named Anonymous doesn't have to mean they were really behind it, right? I mean the hackers could have put that there to mislead them.

Or maybe they didn't, but it's possible...

"

"   While I'm not a fan of this "Anonymous", I think that file seems a little too perfect. There could be someone else who puts the blame on them. "

If they still had Linux support none of this would have ever happened.

" Because if someone broke into my home and left a note that said "Jeff Gerstmann was here," clearly it had to have been Jeff, right? "

Wish people would stop calling Anonymous a "group". They are literally the opposite.

" @ajamafalous said:

" Because if someone broke into my home and left a note that said "Jeff Gerstmann was here," clearly it had to have been Jeff, right? "

God damnit! Why did Jeff do such a thing?!     "