Anonymous: Sony is incompetent

Sony singled out Anonymous for its role in the PlayStation Network data breach, but Anonymous has its own view -- namely, "Sony is incompetent." As for the evidence against them, the group believes it is being targeted by a "false flag op."

Back on April 22, parts of the amorphous hacker collective Anonymous were already denying responsibility for taking down Sony's PlayStation Network. "For Once We Didn't Do It," proclaimed their manifesto. "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 more likely explanation is that Sony is taking advantage of Anonymous' previous ill-will towards the company to distract users from the fact the outage is actually an internal problem with the company's servers." The denials have been coming thick and fast ever since. Certainly, Anonymous had targeted Sony -- with some Anons posting creepy messages about Sony execs and their children -- but the technical attacks were supposedly limited to data floods against various Sony websites. When the PlayStation Network went down, Anons at first worried they may have been responsible and that their tactics were alienating the very gamers in whose name they were acting. (The entire campaign was a response to Sony's lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, which was recently settled out of court.) But they quickly and publicly declared that they had nothing to do with the PlayStation Network's ongoing downtime.