From Hacktivision to DDoS. – The 2011 PlayStation Network Outage.
n early April of 2011, the Hacktivist group Anonymous brought down Sony’s PlayStation Network with a Targeted Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack. (DDoS) Anonymous had warned Sony of retaliation after Sony took legal action against George Hotz, known as “GeoHot,” and Alexander Igorrenknov, known as “Graf_Chokolo.”