Le 31 Mars 2011, Sony a décidé de fermer 3 studios de développement et ainsi de se séparer de 205 de ses employés.Comme par hazard, cet événement apparaît peu avant le piratage du PSN et de ses millions de comptes.
Il n'en faut pas plus pour imaginer qu'un employé mécontent et ayant des accès privilégiés aux serveurs du PSN ait décidé de se venger en piratant tous les comptes du PSN.
Sony Online Entertainment Slashes Hundreds of Jobs, Shutters Three Studios
8:57 PM 3/31/2011 by John Gaudiosi
Sony Online Entertainment has closed three of its game studios and laid off 205 workers as part of a massive restructuring.
All possible steps are being taken to ensure team members affected by the transition are treated with appropriate concern."
"SOE will transition development efforts for the Denver and Tucson studios' suite of products to its San Diego headquarters in order to better position SOE to remain a global leader in online gaming and deliver on its promise of creating entertaining games for players of all ages and servicing the 20 million players that visited SOE servers in just the past year," the company said.
Sony Online Cuts Staff By a Third
April 15, 2011, 12:08:32 PM By Rick DeMott
Sony Online Entertainment has laid off a third of its staff, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The move means 205 employees will lose their jobs and the company will shut down offices in Denver, Tucson and Seattle.
Wikipedia History Timeline on SOE
On March 31, 2011, SOE has confirmed that "it will eliminate 205 positions and close its Denver, Seattle and Tucson studios." Production of The Agency has also been discontinued.
On April 27, 2011, Sony, the parent company of SOE, released statements regarding an intrusion, on or about April 18th, into the PlayStation Network, and the potential theft of up to 77 Million subscribers personal data. Sony maintains that PSN and SOE are hosted and run on completely separate subsystems and that the PlayStation Network intrusion had no major affect on SOE's online services.
On May 2, 2011, SOE completely interrupted their online services. Over the previous month several intrusions of PSN have caused the developers to post messages of concern and apology, but also assurances the SOE servers and systems were not compromised. This most recent development has shut the service down entirely with the message: "We have had to take the SOE service down temporarily. In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately. We will provide an update later today (Monday)."
Et vous, pensez vous que ce piratage du PSN soit lié à un ancien employé ?
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