PlayStation websites, PSN suffer outage: Anonymous claims responsibility

[wraggster]

Been having trouble with the PlayStation Network or any Sony website today? You're not alone. A widespread outage that started in Europe last night has now spread to North America, and none other than hacktivist group Anonymous is claiming responsibility for the attacks. As you can see above, however, Sony is singing a slightly different tune, and says simply that "sporadic maintenance" may cause PSN service to be interrupted throughout the day. Because, really, you can never do too much "sporadic" maintenance.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/04/p...claims-respon/

[Qmark]

Well, this certainly isn't going to backfire.

[Fonixx]

Sony's just gonna spin this to make this group look like a group of anarchists and they the reason people's online experience has been ruined. But also i wouldn't put it past Sony to overreact to a tiny harmless thing by purposely closing down PSN for a short time just to make them look worse.