Friday, May 6, 2011

Hacker Organisation Denies Sony Attack

Online vigilante organisation Anonymous has denied being at the back an assault that led to the burglary of personal information from around 77 million PlayStation users.

The tight-lipped "hacker collective" had progressing been singled-out by Sony as the probable guilty party.

But a posting on Anonymous' blog said: "Let's be clear, you are legion, but it wasn't us. You are amateurish Sony."

The wiring hulk has offering reward to users who endure rascal as a outcome of the theft.

Earlier this week, Sony sent a e-mail to the US Congress accusing Anonymous of being entangled in the attack.

"Sony has been the plant of a really delicately planned, really professional, rarely complex crook cyber attack," mentioned the letter, sealed by Sony America team leader Kazuo Hirai.

He mentioned that Sony had found a record planted on its network marked down "Anonymous" and temperament the group's slogan, "We are legion".

But Anonymous mentioned that it had been framed by online thieves to hurl law coercion off track.

The group, that done headlines in December 2010 after it used program openly existing over the internet to at the moment bring down the sites of MasterCard and Visa, mentioned that its members were not credit card thieves.

"Whoever pennyless in to Sony's servers to rob the credit card info and left a report blaming Anonymous evidently longed for Anonymous to be blamed is to many poignant digital burglary in history," the matter read.

According to Sony, the organisation targeted the firm and facilitated the hacking in plea is to wiring giant's new authorised action against George Hotz.

The US-based hacker was indicted of breaking

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