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[Kintaro]

Every time I go to buy something from PSN, something always happens. =(

 

[GutZ31]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhA9PAfkJ10

Please, everyone thinking this is a "hack", educate yourselves, then post accordingly.
Thank you for listening.


This sucks, no matter who or what site it happens to.
Hopefully Sony actually does improve their network for the better, as the PS store can be pretty damn slow to load, even without someone trying to slow it down from the outside.

 

[Pandora012]

Well, PSN compared to Live service is simply bad.

Too long loading times, sometime it doesn't work (I need to wait on a page until the "purchase" button appears), the bug related to pre-order on PS4...the PSN needs a revamp, and this is a fact.

True can't deny that, that bug is brutal...

 

[MrMuscle]

I cant even get my controller to work on my PS4 now. Only the PS button works, so i can turn on and off the machine. But i cant select an app to launch or anything else.

 

[DevilFox]

Does he expect that we thank him?

 

[Madrugador]

Try disconnecting PS4 from the Internet at settings. It helped for me with TLOU.

Is it set as your primary console? Turn off your internet in the ps4 menu.

Frizby turn off your internet connection.

Will do. Thanks.

 

[Solaire of Astora]

Is it set as your primary console? Turn off your internet in the ps4 menu.

If nothing else, at least more people will be aware about the need to set your ps4 as your primary system. Every cloud...

 

[Human_me]

I'm surprised they didn't wait a couple of weeks and do this DDoS on the day Destiny is released. No one being able to play Destiny would be very embarrassing for Sony and Activision.

Don't give them ideas.

 

[Haloid1177]

No Sly Cooper Collection on Vita for me then. Ugh. Hope they extend the flash sale by a day.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

It's not hacking though, more like stupid idiots.



I agree. Don't give their name any more exposure, because this is why they are doing most of this in the first place.

Dumb idiots at that.

 

[Oersted]

While I understand the frustration, are the "virgin" posts really necessary? Thats going down to their level.

 

[Tawpgun]

Has Xbox live ever been hacked? Seems weird you can seemingly only hack psn.

 

[Newlove]

It's just someone trying to build his portfolio so he can work for Google's Project Zero.

 

[Gekidami]

I'm surprised they didn't wait a couple of weeks and do this DDoS on the day Destiny is released. No one being able to play Destiny would be very embarrassing for Sony and Activision.

Day one traffic will probably do it. Just like when the beta was released.

 

[pixlexic]

This is serverly screwing with my menus.

anyone know a way to be total offline? even when checking your library and movies?

 

[Summer Haze]

Has Xbox live ever been hacked? Seems weird you can seemingly only hack psn.

Oh Jesus Christ *rubs bridge of nose*...it's not a hack. DDoS attacks are not hacks.

XBL has been targeted by DDoS attacks in the past also. No one is immune to them.

 

[Saganator]

Has Xbox live ever been hacked? Seems weird you can seemingly only hack psn.

Ugh, Sony is not being hacked. Their servers are being overloaded by thousands of bot computers. MS can easily be victim to this same attack. I'm guessing these kids are MS fanboys if they haven't hit MS yet.

 

[Y2Kev]

THANKS MAMA ROBOTNIK

 

[Solaire of Astora]

Has Xbox live ever been hacked? Seems weird you can seemingly only hack psn.

This isn't a hack... And yes, I believe XBL has been hacked, but not to the extent of the PSN hack.

 

[U2NUMB]

Yea it was a strange night last night... my friend who is 3 doors down said his internet was out (we have Charter), I told him to switch to Googles DNS and he did and was fine. I also bought Diablo on X1 and it was always saying Battle.net servers down.

I wanted to play some TLOU this morning.. these children need to find a hobby. Stop with this crap.

 

[Live Free or Die]

Has Xbox live ever been hacked? Seems weird you can seemingly only hack psn.

The PSN didn't get hacked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhA9PAfkJ10

Please, everyone thinking this is a "hack", educate yourselves, then post accordingly.
Thank you for listening.

 

[Dragonfly224]

Damn it, I wanted to play PvZ today!

 

[Galactic Fork]

Oh crap, I was about to sign on to get Darksiders 2. They had to do this during a flash sale?

 

[Fallout-with-swords]

So Denial of Service? Not a hack?

 

[Zok310]

Damn near everything on the console requires Internet. Bunch of shitdicks.

 

[Terbinator]

Has Xbox live ever been hacked? Seems weird you can seemingly only hack psn.

No, but it has been DDoS'd before - even by its own members Christmas 2007.

 

[Live Free or Die]

So Denial of Service? Not a hack?

Yes, a DDos. Not a hack.

 

[SparksterMeta0]

Dammit! I was considering buying Tales of Grace during the flash sale, but this crap happened.
I can't log in.

 

[Kintaro]

Can't blame people for thinking its a hack considering PSN's history. lol =/

 

[Mikey Jr.]

Hey guys, let's give them more attention! Grrr, I hate these people! They are trolling me! Lizard squad, stop trolling me! I hate you guys!


There, that should stop them.

 

[MMaRsu]

Can't blame people for thinking its a hack considering PSN's history. lol =/

Its been hacked once :/

 

[I am the Law]

Turned my PS4 on just now and only a blue background screen was visible. Controller didn't work apart from the PS button. Turned it on standby, took the internet cable out and rebooted again. Now I can play offline. Hope this helps people still play offline.

 

[Corto]

THANKS MAMA ROBOTNIK

Hey! I remember that. Hehe

 

[OgTheClever]

Dammit, I ordered a PS4 a couple of days ago and it just arrived today. Coincidentally, I haven't bought any retail games yet because I was planning on playing PS Plus games, like Resogun, to begin with. It started off ok this morning and let me download the update, but when it came to signing into PSN I was getting connection errors.

I thought it was a problem with my network at first so I started troubleshooting and put my PS4 into a DMZ. I got sick of trying after an hour or so and eventually loaded up GAF to see this thread...

 

[CreeperBlocks]

I Think Its coming back to normal now. For where i'm at in Canada anyway. It says that PSN store is down for maintenance (PS3 btw not PS4)

 

[dark_prinny]

Stupid fucks.

 

[SgtCobra]

Why didn't they hack Nintendo instead?! Or Steam, or Ouya...
These hackers need to be dealt with, asap. But Sony is also at fault for being hacked so easily. This would've never happened with XBL.

Screw those hackers.

 

[EL CUCO]

Why didn't they hack Nintendo instead?! Or Steam, or Ouya...
These hackers need to be dealt with, asap. But Sony is also at fault for being hacked so easily. This would've never happened with XBL.

Screw those hackers.

Sigh...

 

[Etzer]

Not during a flash sale! I wanted to get Tales of Graces f.

 

[KojiKnight]

Why didn't they hack Nintendo instead?! Or Steam, or Ouya...
These hackers need to be dealt with, asap. But Sony is also at fault for being hacked so easily. This would've never happened with XBL.

Screw those hackers.

There are so many misconceptions and leaps of logic that don't make sense, I don't even know where to begin.

 

[Solaire of Astora]

But Sony is also at fault for being hacked so easily. This would've never happened with XBL.

Dude... It's not a hack. Do you even read threads before you post in them? Or even the last page?

 

[JCizzle]

I hope this is a punishable offense. Need to deter this ridiculous behavior

 

[Alista]

Why didn't they hack Nintendo instead?! Or Steam, or Ouya...
These hackers need to be dealt with, asap. But Sony is also at fault for being hacked so easily. This would've never happened with XBL.

Screw those hackers.

wow, I don't know where to start here...

 

[adj_noun]

I've been running a countertrace on Web 2.0 but they irrigated the hyperlinks and dove into the deep web. I may have to enhance the polarity of the bit matrix before they can manage to wipe their botprints clean from the information superhighway.

*types furiously*

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Why didn't they hack Nintendo instead?! Or Steam, or Ouya...
These hackers need to be dealt with, asap. But Sony is also at fault for being hacked so easily. This would've never happened with XBL.

Screw those hackers.

It can easily happen to anyone and there are not being Hack .

 

[SgtCobra]

C'mon guys lighten up in these harsh times. Don't you get a sarcasm meter when joining GAF? I'll leave

 

[Proxy]

Wasn't PSN supossed to be going through mantience soon anyway?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=879593

 

[SteveWinwood]

I've been running a countertrace on Web 2.0 but they irrigated the hyperlinks and dove into the deep web. I may have to enhance the polarity of the bit matrix before they can manage to wipe their botprints clean from the information superhighway.

*types furiously*

godspeed!

 

[SlipperyMoose]

Ugh, Sony is not being hacked. Their servers are being overloaded by thousands of bot computers. MS can easily be victim to this same attack. I'm guessing these kids are MS fanboys if they haven't hit MS yet.

Yeah that's it, they are all fanboys...OK buddy.

 

[fsckit]

Maybe someone more educated can explain to me, but isnt it doable for big companies to defend themselves against DDOS, like something if you get a request from the same ip again within so much second just block it for a minute or something (even if they switch around ips). I can imagine there are ways to do this?

I mean a targeted hack is something else, but a DDOS seems quiet basic in what it is in essence.

Blocking isn't the problem. It's saturation of the connectivity. Even if you had a firewall powerful enough to keep up with the decisions about what traffic to drop, it doesn't do any good if the pipe is full getting to your firewall.

Anti-DDoS protection services work kind of like a content delivery network like Akamai combined with firewalls. Basically you need to disperse the bad traffic broadly and drop it and proxy the good traffic back to your real servers that are hidden behind the service.