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Sony is still keeping largely quiet about this disaster that has left tens of millions of gamers without any online service. But, what it seems has happened is that, after an original protest hack by the Anonymous group, another hacker found a similar way in and either started doing lots of damage or mischief (possibly, crediting accounts with fake funds).

Either way, Sony has been caught with its pants down in public, proving that its service is both insecure and unsafe, weak and overly restrictive. If someone takes down Microsoft\'s Xbox onlne service, Netflix or Apple\'s iTunes,  then the whole walled-garden concept of consumer service is looking seriously shaky.