Sony claims that DoS attacks have helped create a fertile ground for hackers Sony has been called by some official bodies of the Americans to provide answers about the recent violation of the PlayStation Network, which we know has exposed sensitive data of more than seventy million of users. While declining the official invitation, the Japanese company still wanted to make some clarifying statements, published on the PlayStation Blog, which we describe below.
On 19 April, Sony has realized that some of the server 130 of the PlayStation Network had restarted and it was not a scheduled task, then conducted an audit in this regard. The next day, the company was aware of the attack and the probable theft of data, even if at that time was not yet possible to determine what information had been transferred.
As a result, the NDP was "off" and April 26 has been reported the incident to users. But how hackers managed to break the system? In the weeks before, Sony had been facing a DoS attack and the entire team was committed to online to that effect, which in fact has made the network vulnerable to a contemporary style attempted violation.
Sony has also found documents on their servers that refer to Anonymous and are closely related to DoS attacks. The group would thus be responsible, although perhaps unintentional, of having paved the way for the attack that led to the theft of data from the PSN. Source: Ars Technica 
On 19 April, Sony has realized that some of the server 130 of the PlayStation Network had restarted and it was not a scheduled task, then conducted an audit in this regard. The next day, the company was aware of the attack and the probable theft of data, even if at that time was not yet possible to determine what information had been transferred.
As a result, the NDP was "off" and April 26 has been reported the incident to users. But how hackers managed to break the system? In the weeks before, Sony had been facing a DoS attack and the entire team was committed to online to that effect, which in fact has made the network vulnerable to a contemporary style attempted violation.
Sony has also found documents on their servers that refer to Anonymous and are closely related to DoS attacks. The group would thus be responsible, although perhaps unintentional, of having paved the way for the attack that led to the theft of data from the PSN. Source: Ars Technica
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