Ep. 23 - PSN Hacked Again | Gamerscore Whores Podcast

In this week's episode we discuss:
- What we've been playing
- PSN monthly free games
- Amazon buying Twitch
- Did the Playstation Network get hacked again?

...Plus we answer your questions, and much more!

[DefenderOfDoom2]

Banks hacked , yowza!

[aceitman]

And so was live.

[fr0sty]

Neither were hacked. DDoS attack does not equal hack. No security was broken, they just overwhelmed the servers with requests.

[Th3o]

@Fr0sty

Yup absolutely right...These titles need to stop. Just for hits!

[Patrick_pk44]

PSN wasn't hacked, it was a DDOS, which sends a ton if traffic to overload the servers, and prevents actual people from connecting into that said server. A DDOS does not gain people's private information, the Lizard Squad are far from a real hacker. Also, I hate how people don't understand the difference between the two, it is quite annoying when false rumours spread.

[CYCLEGAMER]

Ok Sony got DDOS not "hacked". When is Sony going to use that psn money to invest in a stronger system to better fight those kinds of attacks on their networks?? Sure these things are going to happen but it shouldn't happen as frequent and for as long as it has. DDOS or Hack, one is definitely more severe than the other, in this case the result is the same...psn being down.

[Kane22]

no matter how many servers you have. if someone is gonna to attack eventually they'll get through. hell the FBI and many other bigger companies have been DDOS.

[qwerty676]

@Kane22

true you cant ever really 100% prevent a ddos attack

however you can invest in more data centers making it 10x harder to bring down.

Lizard Squad the "supposed" ddosers were able to bring down most of psn for a whole day because Sony only has one data center for psn.

they also tried to ddos Xbox Live after but it hardly had any impact, xbox live was up and running in no time and wasn't even brought down just some light loggin issues.

Lizard Squad even admitted on Twitter MS is a lot harder because they have multiple data centers opposed to sony.

so maybe thats something sony should look into?

[gaffyh]

Ddos is not a hack, it's just a server overload.

[BX81]

Yeah it was hacked.

[kingdom18]

Yeah, no it wasn't.

[Kayant]

And you want to know how many other organizationals including government ones would be considered hacked based on your misinformed logic.

Yh ddos /=/ hacking. It's is not an attack against security.

[BX81]

Oh god let me clear this up now before someones's brain explodes....
I didn't think I would have to include it but...... /s

[dudeOplenty]

@BX81

There was nothing in your post that indicated you were using sarcasm.

[Sm00thNinja]

Jesus people learning is fun. DDOSing is relatively easy to do on a smaller scale explanation it's really just overloading the network with pseudo-Mac addresses to shut down the network or overload it. This is almost impossible to stop because you cannot tell what sources of traffic are legitimate. Microsoft while better equipped to keep their network afloat was still hit with sign in issues on a smaller scale. NOTHING TO DO WITH STEALING PERSONAL INFORMATION but it can allow a gateway to greater damage if that's what these hackers were going for. Sony did a much better job of cleaning up this time lets give them that much credit.. And they kept us relatively informed of what was going on

[Kane22]

I love how every article about this always has "hack" and Sony. i guess they forgot about Microsoft, blizzard, twitch.tv, lol, path of exile, GW2, and many other that have been "hacked" this past 2 weeks. or my personal favorite lets leave out the bomb threat SOE president got. freaking idiots

[Sm00thNinja]

Let's be real here Sony got the ass end of it! PSN was down almost 24 hrs for some folk. XBL had a few sign in issues and Blizzard accounts were unavailable for a few hours but PSN was hit the hardest. Can we agree on that?

[ShadowWolf712]

Not really. I was back in on PSN by that evening, downloaded the GoW collection to my Vita.

Only reason half the servers went down was precautionary anyways, as a DDoS can be used to mask a more malicious attack (or hacking attempt) as well.

So really... no.

[Sm00thNinja]

Wow so much denial can't win with Sony fans. I wrote a whole bunch of stuff here but I needed to edit like I said Sony can do no wrong here.

[ShadowWolf712]

@Sm00thNinja

Not denial, man. I kinda wouldn't be able to access or download had the network been down.

[HanzoHattori]

Blizzard was down for two days.

Xbox Live was affected August 25 and 26th.

PSN was down for 21 hours.

Just to let you know.

[dcj0524]

Sony was gonna do some maintenance the next day anyway so they figured let's just do it now once the servers got back to stable levels

[Notramagama]

Lol.

[MegaRay]

NO! NO COD FOR 24 HOURS! WHAT CAN I DO!

Seriously, does nobody play SP games nowadays?

[jjb1981]

You just made me think of single player games and when I think of single player games I think of chrono trigger. What did happen to single player games?

[ziggurcat]

*sigh*

http://www.reactiongifs.us/...

it wasn't a hack....

[jjb1981]

Distributed denial of service from a zombie net, nothing more. Carry on

[Predaking77]

It was not a hack, everybody knows it was a DDoS attack and Sony confirmed they could not access their network or stole any private information.

This is not rocket science.