Not to long ago now, Sony's Playstation network (PSN) got hacked. Nobody really knows what happened, how much got stolen, or what got stolen for that matter. All that Sony knows is that a lot of people's personal data has been breached. The fact that they did not know whether credit card numbers have been exposed is not very promising. Many of the major "Hacktivist" groups have denied taking part in this breach, including the infamous Anonymous hacktivist group.
The following video explains the story in more detail.
The big question is, was this a attack of Hacktivism? Was it the Anonymous group trying to take down a big network, or trying to prove themselves? Or was this just a case of internet theft and cyber hacking to obtain credit card information. Either way, it wasn't necessary and caused lots of issues for Sony.
So many webpages get defaced by hacktivism each day, governments and companies can both be victims, and in this case it is hard to say exactly what happened other than that over 77 million game users were affected by this breach. This breach affects Sony still to this date, people simply do not want to buy stuff off the playstation store, or register their credit card. Some people have even switched to Xbox because they feel safer.
- Dan Rankin
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