PlayStation Hackers Attacked from Amazon's EC2
Are cloud services a hacker safe haven?
Three weeks ago, Amazon’s EC2 cloud service crashed. Around the same time, Sony’s PlayStation server, holding the personal information of more than 100 million Sony customers, also crashed. Though the events were seemingly unrelated, new information reveals that the hackers who brought down PlayStation, did so from an EC2 server.
The occurrence may simply be an interestingly timed fluke, but the hackers’ use of an external cloud service in order to safeguard their identities, raises larger questions about online security.
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