Just a few days ago, Sony surprised us with an announcement of “routine scheduled maintenance” for around 13 hours. Three days later, Anonymous released the following message on their Youtube channel:
If you were not aware, these are the same people who took down the PSN from April 20th – May 14th back in 2011. But why haven’t we seen the results of this attack? Well, it turns out that planned attack by the infamous hacker group Anonymous, may have been thwarted as this is the latest message left on their Youtube channel:
Even if this attack was only delayed, it seems interesting that perhaps Sony did expect this attack. Only time will tell if Anonymous will continue the efforts to teach Sony a lesson, or if they will set their sights on other companies who have also supported SOPA.
Josh Garibay
January 23, 2012 at 1:18 PMThis is the kind of news I like reading first thing in the morning. Good to see Sony learned from the past and came prepared this time.
Funtcase
January 23, 2012 at 1:29 PM“Only time will tell if Anonymous will continue the efforts to teach Sony a lesson”
Bad journalism
Mark
January 23, 2012 at 1:50 PMHey Anonymous, umad broz?
poop
January 24, 2012 at 1:27 AMhttp://pastehtml.com/view/bllpf04jv.html
pwned.
Julie
January 24, 2012 at 3:36 AMThey didn’t hack the PSN… read the news, smarta$$: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384012,00.asp
Phillip Price
January 24, 2012 at 10:35 AMAlthough they didn’t claim responsibility for the attack back in April, they do claim responsibility for the attack on the PSN now. http://youtu.be/yM17CjQA4rU
Marcel Samyn
January 24, 2012 at 1:28 PM“these are the same people who took down the PSN from April 20th – May 14th back in 2011”
Actually, you cannot know that. “Anonymous” isn’t a fixed group of people, this time it could very well be other members of the group.
Grant Gaines (大将)
January 24, 2012 at 3:24 PMEh…
Just about everyone refers to groups as a constant. When people were mad about the Amy previews/reviews syncing NO ONE cared that you’re comparing 2 opinions, it was IGN is filled with bullshit. The same would happen here… If I posted an article that got the site in trouble and got fired for it, then people would remember JPS had this post, but I am no longer a member so is that really different?
The people who use the group’s name represent the group and regardless of whomever is doing what… anything with that name attached gets associated with it.