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05/05/2011
After the crippling downtime of the Sony Playstation Network by hackers, forensics experts have pointed the finger at infamous hacktivists Anonymous, The Register confirmed.
Experts investigating the breach discovered a file titled 'Anonymous' and the phrase "We are Legion," the company's chairman told members of congress.
Sony Chairman Kazuo Hirai revealed the details in a letter to the US House of Representatives, used to support the notion that hacker collective Anonymous was behind the attacks.
The letter from Sony stated: "Just weeks before, several Sony companies had been the target of a large-scale, coordinated denial of service attack by the group called Anonymous."
"The attacks were coordinated against Sony as a protest against Sony for exercising its rights in a civil action in the United States District Court in San Francisco against a hacker," it added.
"Whether those who participated in the denial of service attacks were conspirators or whether they were simply duped into providing cover for a very clever thief, we may never know."
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This followed news that Sony confirmed the details of 25 million people were taken in a 'second' attack, taking the total affected past 100 million, next-gen.biz reported.
