Hackers Explain Why They Took Down XBL And PSN, XBL Was Easier To Hack

[MaulerX]

LurkerJ said:

kowenicki said:

Shinobi-san said:
To all those saying ddos is not a legitimate hack, you are wrong.

There are multiple methods to go about ddos, some of which include exploiting security flaws and what many of you think are legitimate hacking.

Fact of the matter is, these service were almost completely shut down for days, a standard ddos attack as you are all probably thinking of it, is not what happened here as those can easily be mitigated or at least partially mitigated.

live was down for hours not days. It wasn't a hack.

"It was down for hours" =/= "it wasn't a hack"

A DDoS attack is not a hack no matter how many hours it was down.