Playstation Network May Have Been Hacked Using Amazon ECS!

This has been cross-posted from my VirtZine Virtualization Blog)

Using “The Cloud” to attack “The Cloud?” It would seem so! The timing is really bad on all these “revelations” for Cloud Computing as a direction for business!

Source: PlayStation Network Hacked Using Amazon’s Cloud Service

“A report this morning from Bloomber News points to hackers using Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud as a staging area for the attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network — which led the service to be shut down for almost a month.

The reporters who wrote the Bloomberg report cite an anonymous source ‘with knowledge of the matter’ for the information. An Amazon spokesperson contacted by Bloomberg to confirm or deny the information declined to comment.

According to the source, the hackers used Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) to stage the attacks, but did ‘not hack into Amazon’ — meaning that they paid to rent the cloud service. (EC2’s servers can be rented by the hour.)

The account, set up under a ‘bogus name,’ has since been disabled.

The Bloomberg article does not say whether or not the EC2 service was just one (or the only) of the staging areas used in the attack.

Sony has also not issued a statement about the report. Its PlayStation network, brought down last month, just came back up this past weekend.”