14 DAY TRIAL // Infamous hacker and activist group Anonymous has issued a formal statement in which it denies any involvement in the recent outage of Sony's PlayStation Network online service.
Sony's PlayStation Network has been offline for a week now, with the company finally admitting earlier today that it was the victim of an external attack, which resulted in hackers being able to steal personal user data including names, addresses, PSN IDs and passwords, and even credit card information.
As you can imagine, almost everyone started pointing their fingers at infamous hacker/activist group Anonymous, which already targeted Sony with several attacks at the beginning of the month.
The group issued a formal statement, however, in which it denies any involvement in the PSN outage, under the title "For Once We Didn't Do It."
"While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves AnonOps was not related to this incident and takes no responsibility for it," the group posted on its website.
On the Facebook page of the group, Anonymous continues, saying that PlayStation Network users should just take a break from online gaming, while once again emphasizing that "Sony is incompetent."
Anonymous previously targeted the Japanese corporation at the beginning of April, acting out punishment because it felt that the company was harassing fellow hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz through a lawsuit.
The attacks resulted in the PlayStation Network being down for "unexpected maintenance," according to Sony, alongside many websites owned by the Japanese company.
Anonymous backed down from the attacks shortly after that, saying that PSN downtime only meant harm came to the actual users of the online service.
Now, it seems that these other hackers have done a better job than Anonymous, taking down the whole service and stealing personal information of all the 70+ million PlayStation Network users.
Expect more details about the PSN outage in the following days.