Sony anonymous blame for the debacle of data theft PlayStation Network

In response to the investigation of a Subcommittee of the Congress into the massive data breach of its network of PlayStation exposed the personal data of more of 100 million players, Sony claims to have evidence that officials are part of the infamous "anonymous international hacktivist group."

"Sony has been the victim of an attack from criminal cyber very carefully planned, very professional, very sophisticated," writes Patrick Seybold, Senior Director of communications for Sony, in a summary of his letter to the Congress, which has been posted on the PlayStation Blog. "We discovered that the attackers had planted a file on one of our Sony Online Entertainment servers named"anonymous"with the words"we are legion.""

Anonymous admitted to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) on Sony's Web site attack in the framework of # OpSony, launched in retaliation against the prosecution of Sony's PlayStation 3 jailbreak George "geohot" Hotz hacker. But the loose-knit group denies having any part in hacking the NHP and insists on the fact that they were not present in a theft of data of any nature. (See video below).

In the full letter to the Subcommittee of the Congress on trade of manufacturing and trade, however, Kazuo Hirai, President of the Sony Board offers the theory that anonymous has launched DDoS attack, which he was held "to or at the same time" as the breach of securityas a smoke screen to cover the breach of the NHP - a gesture which distracted from Sony to the real threat on its network and make the company unable to detect the breach of security.

"[O] ur security teams are working very hard to defend against attacks of service, refusal of" Hirai wrote in the letter, "" and which may have made it more difficult to detect the intrusion quickly - while perhaps by design.""

At the time that the security hole was held on 16 April, however, anonymous was officially called off # OpSony due to the fact that George Hotz has reached an agreement with the company. According to a press release published on AnonNews, anonymous had moved its operations offline and "Street".

Regardless of whether if anonymous intentionally diverted from Sony security team for the sole purpose of initiating a "highly sophisticated cyber criminal attack designed to steal personal and credit card for illegal purpose information", or was in it for the LULZSony still puts the blame for the attack firmly on the ambiguous shoulders faceless.

"If those involved in the denial of services attacks were conspiratorial or if they were simply fooled by providing coverage for a very intelligent thief, we can never know," Hirai wrote. "" "". In all cases, those involved in the denial of service attacks should understand that - if they knew or not - they helped a well planned theft, well executed, large-scale who left not only Sony a victim, but also Sony many customers around the world. ?

Sony says that it has about 12.3 million credit on file via the PlayStation Network cards, with approximately 5.6 million of those belonging to the parties in the United States. Until now, Sony said its investigation found no evidence that the breach of security NHP resulted in a single count of fraudulent activity.