{"id":103102,"date":"2014-08-25T21:09:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=103102"},"modified":"2014-08-25T21:09:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:09:20","slug":"hackers-attack-sony-playstation-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=103102","title":{"rendered":"Hackers attack Sony PlayStation Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sony-playstation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-103100\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sony-playstation.jpg\" alt=\" PlayStation \u0581\u0561\u0576\u0581\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sony-playstation.jpg 620w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sony-playstation-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sony-playstation-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A group of hackers calling themselves &#8220;Lizard Squad&#8221; has taken down several popular online video game networks and possibly diverted an American Airlines jet carrying a Sony executive.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Blizzard Entertainment, CCP Games, Riot Games and Sony (<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=SNE&amp;source=story_quote_link\">SNE<\/a>) have done maintenance to bring their networks back online.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LizardSquad\">speaking publicly on Twitter<\/a>, claimed responsibility for attacking the PlayStation Network and others, disrupting the ability of millions of gamers to play together online.<\/p>\n<p>According to the targeted companies, hackers flooded their networks with illegitimate traffic &#8212; a strategy known as a distributed denial of service attack. The FBI said it was investigating.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2014\/08\/24\/playstation-network-update-2\/\">Sony said both its services were still under repair<\/a> but assured customers no user data was exposed. The other networks did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j_smedley\/\">John Smedley<\/a>, president of Sony Online Entertainment, acknowledged the &#8220;large scale&#8221; attacks on Twitter, he came under fire as well. Knowing that Smedley was on a flight from the Dallas area to San Diego, the hackers made a veiled threat about bombs on his plane.<\/p>\n<p>The plane was diverted to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI later released this statement: &#8220;The flight landed without incident. Passengers were safely removed from the plane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A group of hackers calling themselves &#8220;Lizard Squad&#8221; has taken down several popular online&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[13739,13740],"class_list":["post-103102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-hackers-attack","tag-sony-playstation-network","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}