TIPS: 7 ways to avoid getting hacked by Anonymous
"For once we didn't do it," reads a message on the site that is used by the organization to post its activities.
But since Anonymous is a loose collective of hackers, the posting also leaves open the possibility that individual members are to blame. "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," a posting reads.
Anonymous did claim responsibility for earlier attacks against the PlayStation site, but relented after it decided it was more crippling to innocent gamers who just happen to like PlayStations than it was to Sony itself.
The Sony outage is bad timing for PlayStation because it was launching new versions of several games.
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