PS3 & PSP: Another PSN hack on the way?

A new report claims that hackers angry at Sony will attempt hacking the company’s data bases again over the weekend.

The Sony affair continues to get tangled. Cnet reports that a group of hackers is planning another wave of attacks on company servers, as retaliation for Sony’s handling of the large hack during which details of 100 million clients were stolen. If in that case there isn’t proof that the information was published somewhere, this time hackers are planning to release some of it, or all of it, online. The hackers claim they already have access to some of the company’s servers.

It is not yet clear whether these are the same people that hacked company servers originally and Cnet are not saying which group they belong to. Yesterday Sony accused Anonymous by being behind the attempts to harm its servers, but Anonymous deny any association to the hack.

The attack on Sony began about three weeks ago, after the company announced it reached a settlement with hacker George Hutz that was partly responsible for the hack of the PlayStation. Sony succeeded in getting Hutz to cease advertising the hack and make a commitment that he will not hack any Sony devices in the future – a compromise that wasn’t acceptable on Anonymous and other groups that claimed Hutz had every right to hack a device he purchased legally.

Three new messages were published today on the official PlayStation blog in the US. The first was written by Patrick Seybold, marketing manager, and states that Sony has entered the final stage of the preparations to reopening the PSN. It is not yet clear whether the company will meet the deadline they set, to reactivating some of the services by the end of the week.

The second letter, signed by Sony international CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, is an apology letter, in which Stringer refers to the claims that Sony didn’t act quickly enough after discovering its servers were hacked. According to Stringer, the minute they learned about the size of the hack Sony disabled its servers and hired experts to investigate the occurrences. He says, Sony waited because they wanted to understand what happened and what information was stolen, before announcing it to clients. In addition, Stringer repeats the means of compensation Sony will offer its clients, starting with free content and up to a one month subscription for the premium service – PlayStation Plus.

The third letter, that refers to the American clients exclusively, offers them a year’s free subscription on Allclear ID Plaus that protects personal information online and alerts the client when there’s a suspicion for unlicensed use of that information. It is not yet clear whether Sony’s clients outside the US will receive the same support.

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