PlayStation Network Outage Thread - Status Checker In OP

[Matt S]

Originally Posted by Tekka

I never would have guessed that would happen to the psn. Not after that last breach issue they had. I'd have thought they'd have made things robust enough to resist a ddos attack.

You would think......first time was bad enough, but to allow this a 2nd time is unacceptable.

What are we paying for with PSN? Not upgraded security, apparently

Originally Posted by Icemage

Uh, some of you guys realize that a DDoS is NOT a hack, yes?

Getting a Distributed Denial of Service attack is basically getting your network flooded with garbage information that then clogs up the information flow from legitimate users. It has nothing to do with your login security (which is what a hack is).

People use the term hack to mean, 'service being screwed with by bored 13 year olds....'