Sony online gaming services workers in the huge security breach and that it implicated Anonymous group on the PlayStation 3 was targeted because of a legal dispute.The story stretches back to 2009.
Late 2009: George Hotz, a single "GeoHot" hacker known online as, for that PlayStation 3 "Escape" declared intention. To circumvent copyright control console allows you to run unauthorized software.
March 2010: Sony PlayStation 3 an option to install an operating system by removing angers some PlayStation 3 owners. Incentives to move more than an effort to provide cheer escape.
2 January 2011: George Hotz online that any PlayStation 3 owner to allow your machine to run code publishes.
11 January: George Hotz sues Sony asks for a restraining order to stop him and his jailbreaking software distribution to PlayStation owners. It claims he "[d] or PS3 Playstation 3 video game system using illegal copies of the game is capable.
14 January: George Hotz denies stealing their work supports, saying: ". I made a special effort, while I was working on to try and enable things like I do not support piracy, Able without home cooking ".
April 2: Anonymous, online activist group, the operation begins: Sony, Sony has a series of denial of service attack on websites that say it is in defense of free speech.
April 11: Sony Announces George Hotz for the court case and agreed to take down your website that has been settled out.
April 13: Anonymous say this protest on April 16 for a day and calls will intensify their attacks. "Eyes of the law in the case, it is turned off for anonymous is just the beginning ... have you ever seen the biggest attack, ready to anonymous style" it says in a video message.
April 16: Hackers Sony Online Entertainment, PC gaming service firms to break into and steal 25 million users' personal information. 23 400 European users credit card or direct debit details can be has been around.
April 17: hackers to break into the PlayStation Network and 77 million users' personal information stolen.
April 19: Sony PlayStation Network detects violations.
April 20: Sony's PlayStation Network stops, in public, citing technical problems.
Apr 26 Sony Playstation Network publicly disclose said violations and has called in the FBI.
May 1 investigator Sony Online Entertainment and Sony discovered the violation it stops. Separately, Japanese authorities bow in apology for violating the Sony PlayStation Network.
May 2: Sony Online Entertainment Sony publicly disclose violations.
May 4: Kazuo Hirai, Sony's president, a U.S. Congress committee that the hacker left a calling card tells implicating Anonymous. Investigators with a motto "Anonymous" name "we are the army found the file. He also says the denial of service attacks community made it easier for hackers to breach security.
"Security team were working very hard to defend against denial of service attacks, and that has made it more difficult for the intrusion detection can quickly - the design, all Perhaps "Mr. Hirai says.
May 4: A press release purporting to come from anonymous denies stealing credit card, but Sony's system hacking or stealing personal data directly deny.
“We are trying to fight criminal activities by corporations and governments, not steal credit cards,” it says.
March 2010: Sony PlayStation 3 an option to install an operating system by removing angers some PlayStation 3 owners. Incentives to move more than an effort to provide cheer escape.
2 January 2011: George Hotz online that any PlayStation 3 owner to allow your machine to run code publishes.
11 January: George Hotz sues Sony asks for a restraining order to stop him and his jailbreaking software distribution to PlayStation owners. It claims he "[d] or PS3 Playstation 3 video game system using illegal copies of the game is capable.
14 January: George Hotz denies stealing their work supports, saying: ". I made a special effort, while I was working on to try and enable things like I do not support piracy, Able without home cooking ".
April 2: Anonymous, online activist group, the operation begins: Sony, Sony has a series of denial of service attack on websites that say it is in defense of free speech.
April 11: Sony Announces George Hotz for the court case and agreed to take down your website that has been settled out.
April 13: Anonymous say this protest on April 16 for a day and calls will intensify their attacks. "Eyes of the law in the case, it is turned off for anonymous is just the beginning ... have you ever seen the biggest attack, ready to anonymous style" it says in a video message.
April 16: Hackers Sony Online Entertainment, PC gaming service firms to break into and steal 25 million users' personal information. 23 400 European users credit card or direct debit details can be has been around.
April 17: hackers to break into the PlayStation Network and 77 million users' personal information stolen.
April 19: Sony PlayStation Network detects violations.
April 20: Sony's PlayStation Network stops, in public, citing technical problems.
Apr 26 Sony Playstation Network publicly disclose said violations and has called in the FBI.
May 1 investigator Sony Online Entertainment and Sony discovered the violation it stops. Separately, Japanese authorities bow in apology for violating the Sony PlayStation Network.
May 2: Sony Online Entertainment Sony publicly disclose violations.
May 4: Kazuo Hirai, Sony's president, a U.S. Congress committee that the hacker left a calling card tells implicating Anonymous. Investigators with a motto "Anonymous" name "we are the army found the file. He also says the denial of service attacks community made it easier for hackers to breach security.
"Security team were working very hard to defend against denial of service attacks, and that has made it more difficult for the intrusion detection can quickly - the design, all Perhaps "Mr. Hirai says.
May 4: A press release purporting to come from anonymous denies stealing credit card, but Sony's system hacking or stealing personal data directly deny.
“We are trying to fight criminal activities by corporations and governments, not steal credit cards,” it says.
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