Listening to the Drunk Tank Podcast also clears stuff up.
Rooster Teeth is sorta the gods of Video Game films and commentary. PSN just got back online (maybe a week ago) and they introduced a "Welcome Back" program in return of being down so long. They were even joking about PSN like "oh good thing my credit card expired." The FBI is even working with Sony Entertainment America to catch the hacker. It was all in response to the whole law suit against a kid who did the legitament of jailbreaking an iPod to a ps3 and posted it on YouTube. But nevertheless, the hack did happen, credit card info was stolen, and PSN was down for weeks.
Another system got hacked, the Wii. But unlike PSN, they did not lose credit card information.
If you have question about my sources , use the following
Roosterteeth.com (they have the podcast and the topics they talk about contain links)
Wikipedia (It's called Anonymous, those 4chan hackers, scroll down to PSN)
And lastly Google.
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