Hacking your video game console is nothing new, but some times, gamers get a little carried away and this is what happened when a group took their playstation skills a little too far!
Ever since the Internet existed, so have hackers. From hacking personal computers, to selling illegal things on the “dark web”, hackers have always tried to use scare tactics to get what they want.
Sometimes, they actually get their hands on some pretty confidential information. Some consider hackers to be essential to keeping freedom of speech, things like WikiLeaks can help the people know what’s going on in the world. For us gamers however, when we think of hackers we think of cheaters in videogames, cracked ROMs, and thepiratebay. However, there’s a whole other side of hacking when it comes to videogames, and in this case, we’re going to explore a record-setting incident with Sony and the Playstation Network; in 2011, 77 million PSN users had their personal data hacked by an anonymous hacker. While we have an idea who may have been the culprit, there’s still no answer to who the mastermind behind the Sony hack was nearly 10 years ago.
