PSN suffering widespread issues as a result of DDOS attack - Service slowly returning to normal

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osed125 said:

Teeqoz said:

MoHasanie said:
Could the hackers steal data again?

It's a DDoS attack. It's not hacking per se, it's just overloading the PSN servers so they crash. I think

That's a what's called a buffer overflow.

DDoS stands for Distributed Denial-of-Service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhA9PAfkJ10

No hes right a DDos attack is one in which many machines are used to overwhelm the intended device to cause it to crash.a buffer overflow is an attack where you fill up a systems memory so the buffer gets overflow and the portion that dosent fit in the memory (usually designed to be executed) gets executed. 9years Cyber Security in the Marine Corps for reference.