Although hacker group Anonymous recently halted their attacks on Sony (allegedly for closing their platform and restricting its consumer’s use of their own product), the organization has said they are far from finished with the electronic s company. Anonymous has begun organizing protest demonstrations against Sony at many of their outlet stores worldwide.
Sony and George “Geohotz” Hotz have issued a joint statement, announcing that they have settled their legal dispute out of court. The court documents associated with this settlement are included after the jump. The parties have been engaged in a legal struggle for several months, after Hotz published the rootkey of the Playstation 3. An […]
The hacker group Anonymous, famous for its site-crashing defense of Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks organization, has been targeting Sony through their media servers on the Playstation Network and the company’s official website. The group cited loyalty to George “Geohot” Hotz as the cause for their attacks, with Sony allegedly “restricting one’s use of a product they […]
In the ongoing legal struggle between Sony and George “Geohot” Hotz, the hacker who published the Playstation 3 rootkey, a court has granted Sony access to “limited information” from Hotz’ PayPal account. Specifically, the court allowed Sony to access data “to identify the source of funds in California that went into any PayPal account associated […]