Posted in Cloud, 14th May 2011 01:10 GMT
The hackers who breached the security of Sony's PlayStation Network and gained access to sensitive data for 77 million subscribers used Amazon's web services cloud to launch the attack, Bloomberg News reported.
The attackers rented a server from Amazon's EC2 service and penetrated the popular network from there, the news outlet said, citing an unnamed person with knowledge of the matter. The hackers supplied fake information to Amazon. The account has now been closed.
Bloomberg doesn't say how Amazon's cloud service was used to mount the attack. If the report is correct, it wouldn't be the first time it's been used by hackers.
The attackers rented a server from Amazon's EC2 service and penetrated the popular network from there, the news outlet said, citing an unnamed person with knowledge of the matter. The hackers supplied fake information to Amazon. The account has now been closed.
Neither Sony nor Amazon commented on the claims.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/14/playstation_network_attack_from_amazon/
6 comments:
Weren't Amazon having a bunch of troubles with their servers not that long ago? I remember a heap of sites hosted on them going down. Now this. Not good publicity for Amazon lately!
Bad news for Amazon, but good news for Sony and their users.
I'm a little Angry to hear this knowing that Amazon have said nothing about the issue at all.
Well this sucks!
Well, I'm glad I don't game online on my PS3, that's for sure! I was pissed at Sony when my memory card got wiped on my PS2 way back when, if my identity was stolen, heads would roll.
So that's how it happened.
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