Hi everyone. Hope you all enjoy this one, sorry it took so long to do another documentary. As always, any support on Patreon is greatly appreciated, and thank you all so much for watching. You're all the best.
Nice video, although too many youtube commercials, keep it real. That outage was during my peak movie downloading days on to my PS3. My brother was laughing at me with his 360 fanboys. I did not have a credit card or any funds on my account so and I wasn't too worried about my info, I just changed all my passwords immediately after. I didn't feel too offended by this event, especially because Sony handled it mostly professionally. Xbox on the other hand burned me 3 times with the red ring, it made perfect circles destroying several of my games, low quality 360 controllers that lasted me less than 1 year, and now a crummy exclusive-less generation. It gets harder for me to forgive their mistakes. Especially with those stupid,"oops" error messages.
I remember when this happened, I was 9 and remembered saying "Ooh free games!". Didn't know that my dads credit card was in jeopardy. Now infamous is one of my favorite game series
I’m so glad that back then when I wanted anything I would use psn cards instead of debit/credit cards, if a hack like that happened now I’d lose my shit because I do have some stuff connected
I remember when this happened I never wanted to play Black Ops 1 so bad but couldn't because no PSN... Then all we got was a free indie game and a week of PS Plus lol.
I remember when this happened. some of my friends were bummed that their PSPs and PS3s wouldn’t go online, meanwhile I was having the time of my life playing Wii Sports Resort lmao. but I was actually affected by the 2014 one because my bro had actually got a PS4 the same day !
This event is oddly nostalgic for me, what a wild time; I miss these times when this random stuff would happen. PS3/XBOX 360/Wii era was something else man.
Imagine just getting the PS3 and discovering that you can play online with other players only to have the Network get hacked a week or so later... Yeah, that was me.
On my birthday, April 25th 2011, I got a PSP GO which was completely digital which meant I could only download games through the playstation store. Needless to say I was very upset when I found out the network was down and I couldn't get any games for it. It went back to the store 2 days later for a refund. I never bought another Sony product again.
Ugh I remembered when it happened. I was 11 at the time so I didn't really realize how serious the issue had been. At the time I was only pissed off that I couldn't access PSN.
@@CherryFlavoredAntAss Littlebigplanet was the 4th one in the US. Lbp was almost 3 years old, Infamous was almost 2 yeats old and already had huge price cuts, wipe out was meh, and dead nation was super short.
Fearless loner Pfft man if I had to take a wild guess, it was at least round 15. I remember having all my weapons upgraded and then boom. *An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network*
I was playing Kino at the time I finally got a thunder gun at round 23 and I went to upgrade it. I put it in the pack a punch machine.... sadly never saw it come out *an error has occured*
@@carljohnson7168 Right but many people died on 9/11 resulting in a war, where the 21 day outage resulted in gamers not knowing what to do with themselves for a few weeks basically speaking
I lost a friend because of this. I knew someone who was suicidal and I had talked her down multiple times. After the hack, I never saw her log in again and after mourning her for a long time, I kind of accepted that I'd never get closure and unfriended her account. I hated always seeing her PSN ID on my list with the Last Logged In date only getting longer and longer... I think about her on occasion, praying she didn't actually do anything but... I don't have high hopes anymore.
@@FriendlyNeighbourhoodSpidey don't be dense. He/she meant that they weren't able to be there during those vulnerable times and is forced to assume what happened.
I’ll never forget this day my older brother was screaming at the top of his lungs for a whole week cuz he couldn’t play black ops online 😂, meanwhile I was having the time of my life playing on my ps2
Lmaoo it didn't happen to me but one of my neighbors older brothers beat his ass cuz he thought he broke his ps3 or something. He felt like such an asshole after 😂
I was 16 and in college when this happened (in the UK)...crazy how time flies because I remember this so much. I was addicted to the PS3 in my teen years, so this was massive to me and that’s why I will ALWAYS remember it.
I Bought my ps3 in April 2011 i swear to GOD, but i didn't know till now that there was a psn hack problem yet i enjoyed the hell out of my ps3 because i never used a psn.
I had the original ps3 from 2009-2010 then my dad sold it. Im glad we got another one in november of 2011. I was unaware of the hack at all. I didnt even have psn
Dude i bought my ps3 at the same time. A day before the outage. And specifically just to play CoD online. I was so pissed when i got home and tried to sign up. I played so much campaign and zombies.
I remember this greatly, it happened literally a month after my older brother got a PS3 and gave me his old Xbox 360. Once the hack happened he just hogged my Xbox until PSN returned. It was so annoying.
I do not usually leave comments on videos but this was a truly exceptional video and I feel it deserves greater recognition. As someone who was directly impacted by this attack in 2011, I still had lingering questions about the outage. This video went above and beyond answering my questions and I found the whole video engaging and interesting. Keep up the great work!
IMPOSSIBLE... The Hackers back then could have forced a new forged FW-Update on PSPs and PS3 and it was a Mainframe-Takeover... Is it a Mainframe-Takeover in Rockstar's case?
I was sophomore in high school when this happened I was really upset because I had just gotten SOCOM 4 and Mortal Kombat right before this happened this essentially killed the SOCOM series it’s sad
@@TheFurryInShambles Sony was only doing what they were legally allowed to do to protect their platform from being held and pirated. They were wrong to attack Sony
I remember kids that didn’t understand/know that PSN was hacked were making videos raging about how they couldnt play black ops 1 online. And 360 players making fun of ps3 owners for not having online. It was an interesting time 😂
@@Bread_Bug for these xbox 360 people who were bullying ps3 users a merry fuck you Like LITERALLY there was big chance of them losing credit card number and other personal info Like as much console war there is there should be a fucking limit where u can laugh
I bought a ps3 in late July or early August of 2011 as a Sophomore in highschool. I didn't even know about this fiasco until a few months later when I made some new friends at school that played ps3 (most played xbox360). I was just excited to finally take my 2 weeks worth of pay during the summer to finally buy a ps3 that I had been wanting for years. I bought it after work walking a mile to the mall. Caught the public bus, and then walked the almost 2 miles home over a big mountain holding my ps3 slim massive box. Embarrassing? Yes. Did I care? Fuck no
Sony might not be the cleanest company in the planet concerning their products, but at the very least they are responsible enough to take full backlash against their wrong doings and apologize for breaking their promised delivered services. Good job Sony, you genuinely tried your best 👍
@@chunchunmaru I lived through both and trust me the lizard shit pissed me off more I get new games new controller new headset so fucking hyped but no. But who cares now I got a pc
God that lizard squad shit pissed me off so bad. I had literally tue worst christmas that year too and it made me hella depressed when that happened too
@Nikitos 77 Did you miss the PS3 when the PS3 welcome pack happened because you weren’t on the PS3? Or did you not get the PS3 welcome pack even when it came out?
I also didn't get the welcome back pack, because when I had originally created my psn account, I had mistyped one character in my email. And so, I was always using an email address I never had access to Only realized it after 1 month of frustration of not being able to play online, when I had to reset the password. And of course I also lost all the trophies and stuff. Ahhhhh good old days!
@@argonauts56au1kera6 Argonxx12 1 I were not home at that time. After 2 months I got back to home and my friend messaged me : Did you got welcome pack? After researching internet I understood I missed it :) Very cool right? (no) (where I was? Answer: I were at other city. Why? Answer: Because as I saw that there is troubles with PSN I decided to visit my Grandpa. And so I got to other city.) And also I didn't had super phone at that time. So I didn't know if the problem got fixed. I'm very "lucky" ;)
I’m here from the Xbox 360 vs. PS3 video. These videos are great to me. Don’t stop doing these. I appreciate your hard work and researching s big salute to you man!
Kutaragi was so far ahead of the ball. It is such a shame the old guard at Sony were/are so blind. He had the vision to create an iOS/Android like environment almost a decade before anyone else. The old guard were clueless about the web. This whole thing could have been avoided if they would have listened to Ken.
something like this shouldn't have been possible in the first place, DDOS is something anybody can do with a bot network, its a wonder nobody did it earlier.
Maybe Sony shouldn’t have asked for more than they could handle asking for PayPal information? User IPs who watched his RUclips videos? Sony wanted to be Tyrant but forgot that there are people out there that will put them in check.
This gave me legit chills, I remember coming back home to play cod with my dad and my school mates, we couldn't even sign in! Little did we know how long it would be down for and how many games we needed online to play. Amazing video!!
I remember this being in highschool. Boored to death having to go out and socialize. It was traumatic. However it did make me play solo... And reach the highest cod zombies level I've ever had
Good documentary, took me back to when that actually happened. A shitty time for all of us PSN users. Let's just hope something like that never happens again.
I remember when this happened. I was so frustrated by the lack of information about the outage that I went out and bought a PC and never looked back since. It's really cool to see this event well documented like this.
I used to debate furiously with my friends who were Xbox fans about which system was better. I was a PlayStation guy so when this happened I was incredibly salty lol 😂. They didn’t let me live it down for a long time. Good times!
Just a thought, but it seems to me that the PS3-Vita era (About years: 2006-2012) were PlayStation's darkest years. PS3 having a rough start, Vita failed in sales, and the PSN Hack.
sad to tell you this but they tried attacking the Microsoft servers but with the xbox live being paid for it was really hard for them to heck they even attacked the Wii servers
"Communication is key" PS4: I agree, that's why we gonna charge $60 a year. Edit: I had to change the price of the PS Plus otherwise this comment section was going to stone me lol Also Thanks for 700 likes!!!
I remember this vividly... My buddy and I were playing Black Ops 1 and suddenly, we got the fabled message "PlayStation Network is currently undergoing maintence". Thought it would only last a few hours, then 23 days went by...
To those IT and Computer Technicians there who worked hard and sacrificial Overtimes to put back the PSN to it's original and improved form, thank you very much. :)
I swear, Mystic is like the “Scott the woz” for PlayStation fans. I love your videos and how much love and work you put into these videos, keep up the good work Mystic
I was only 8 at the time, and I'm pretty sure I got my PS3 a couple weeks after all this had settled down, but even I vaguely remember hearing about this while my family watched the news. Never knew PSN was down for so long though, I think I always imagined in my mind that it was closer to a week. Very interesting to learn about.
I had an Xbox and my older brother had a PS3 in 2011. When this happened he basically took over my Xbox. So I suffered from this event even though I had an Xbox.
ESPECIALLY if you decide its a great idea to piss off all the hackers on your network by removing the ability to run linux then going after anyone who trys to enable that feature again xD
"Sony isn‘t fully responsible for it". Umm yes they were? The way the hackers got in were by exploiting KNOWN vulnerabilities. This means that Sony knew about these vulnerabilities BEFORE the hacker exploited them. Why didn't Sony patch these issues in the first place?
I’d just got my PS3 hooked up to the internet the day before this happened so the free ps plus was a nice treat for something I never felt I missed out on
Lol yeah that, I remember trying to play gta 5 with a friend on christmas but fucking lizard squad or whoever the fuck they are decided to ruin our fun
I remember when I got hacked. They took my dads debit card number and purchases so my dad had to take a new debit card... He also lost money from hackers coming and stealing my account they also removed my password so I couldn’t access it for 8 years... I got it back with only 1 Game. And that was Slender. Edit: I also forgot to say that I got Terraria back as well.
Sony as a company is so weak, and the fact they still have not spoke out about this speaks volumes. Rockstar immediately got the FBI involved once someone started leaking their GTA 6 footage, embarrassing.
Hi everyone. Hope you all enjoy this one, sorry it took so long to do another documentary. As always, any support on Patreon is greatly appreciated, and thank you all so much for watching. You're all the best.
Great job as always!
Mystic fantastic documentary Ryan loved it
Thanks for the hard work 👍
Nice video, although too many youtube commercials, keep it real. That outage was during my peak movie downloading days on to my PS3. My brother was laughing at me with his 360 fanboys. I did not have a credit card or any funds on my account so and I wasn't too worried about my info, I just changed all my passwords immediately after.
I didn't feel too offended by this event, especially because Sony handled it mostly professionally.
Xbox on the other hand burned me 3 times with the red ring, it made perfect circles destroying several of my games, low quality 360 controllers that lasted me less than 1 year, and now a crummy exclusive-less generation. It gets harder for me to forgive their mistakes. Especially with those stupid,"oops" error messages.
I enjoyed that alot was really good keep up the great work 👍
Imagine working for Sony's technical support the day it started...
A fucking nightmare
@Wilf 116 I can imagine how fast that person's heart dropped. I wonder how many overtime hours were worked because of the attack.
@@lyricallemons6625 Hahahaha
Naahdude id fucking quit
Duckem with Bleach ikr
“ Playstation Network is currently undergoing maintence” I will never forget that line...
Haven’t seen that in time I remember I was playing black ops 3 with my friends then the servers went down
@Levz It was free back in the time
@I am Vibing yoooo same here that's actually why I'm rewatching this lmao. Last time something like this happened was in 2011
It’s happening right now
@@lawrencedavis7797 still on oh fuck here we go again
Luckily I was still playing ps2 in 2011.
Me too and psp
Same lol
I was still playing Nintendo 64 in 2011 😂
lol i got my ps3 christmas 2012
Didn't get PS3 till 2013
“Stolen credit card info”
Gift card people: *sigh of relief*
lmao so true. That was me back then
I'm more a gift card person idk I feel more comfy adding funds with gift cards
@@orangedrip Same. Plus you get an extra card to keep around. Some platforms even give rewards for redeeming gift cards lol.
@@swordcrafted i don't know any maybe the my nintendo rewards which gives you gold points in every game you purchase
@@orangedrip i remember in roblox when you redeem a gift card code you get an extra free item based on what month and what store you got it from
The joke was on them
I was broke anyway
All they stole were Hopes and dreams
Good joke.
Lmaooo I love this comment
But online on PlayStation was free back then
T D i don’t think he’s referring to online use
Is that a haiku?
I remember when this happened, I was 9 and remembered saying "Ooh free games!".
Didn't know that my dads credit card was in jeopardy. Now infamous is one of my favorite game series
Omg me too. Infamous is actually my #1 fave lol
I’m so glad that back then when I wanted anything I would use psn cards instead of debit/credit cards, if a hack like that happened now I’d lose my shit because I do have some stuff connected
Axel Z I use my card, but I remove it after I’m done purchasing something.
Jay Gear same bro
@@jaygear5870 the log stays in the servers, so you aren't saved at all
Hacker: Hacks Sony
PlayStation: Releases a bunch of games for free
Hacker: We got em boys
Fax
fax
no shit? damn I missed out what they give?..... was it even triple a titles?
Hey Joji Infamous, Little Big Planet, and 2 other games i forgot
Not So Friendly Squidd killzone and a racing game
this is like the one show you can't stop coming back to, it's amazingly well put together
The hack was an adventure which changed the life of BILLIONS of people and most don't even know it!
I remember when this happened I never wanted to play Black Ops 1 so bad but couldn't because no PSN... Then all we got was a free indie game and a week of PS Plus lol.
Woah Zac never thought I'd see you here
ok didt think i would see you here
i mean, some of the choices were infamous littlebigplanet and wipeout but k lol
Woah infamous is a very good game, so is little big planet.
I remember those days, damm time flies
Great video, I remember PSN going down all those years ago but forgot it was for 23 days! If that happened now it would cause havoc hah
Oh my god Ali a is here
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so random
*ali a laughing at psn shutdown*
Hackers in April: *hacks psn*
Sony: “We are sorry, it won’t happen again.”
Hackers in May: “Want to see me do it again?”
Should said, I'll fuckin do it again
😂😂😂😂
@Changed Name shut up kid your probably in 3rd grade get a life
@Michael Connors Your last name is Conners lol
@Michael Connors Thats what life says to you lmao
I remember when this happened. some of my friends were bummed that their PSPs and PS3s wouldn’t go online, meanwhile I was having the time of my life playing Wii Sports Resort lmao. but I was actually affected by the 2014 one because my bro had actually got a PS4 the same day !
I was playing ps2 that time lol
Lol I was also playing on the wii at that time
That hack was great. It got Little Big Planet & Infamous. Both great games.
Sameeee
both games are so fuckin amazing
Did you have 2 accounts? I only got little big planet and a couple of psp titles.
I downloaded all 5 through various accounts. Never played Wipeout but especially loved Infmaous and playing through Dead Nation with friends
Infamous and infamous 2 were fuckinnnng goood and had replay value too. I played both of those games at least 10 times over each
Just went downstairs and hugged my ps3
Why do you still have a ps3?
Unless you have 2 consoles
@@rz1sa Why not? I kept my PS2 evne though I haven't used it in years
I Still have my Original PS1 Fat, and my Dreamcast.
What's the problem?
..and my PS2 and my PSX.. :) @Sniper9warfare: Cause we can! :) (and care)
Sniper9warfare I have a ps3 and ps4
This event is oddly nostalgic for me, what a wild time; I miss these times when this random stuff would happen. PS3/XBOX 360/Wii era was something else man.
Imagine just getting the PS3 and discovering that you can play online with other players only to have the Network get hacked a week or so later...
Yeah, that was me.
Lol, that was almost me since I got my PS3 sometime in early 2011 but didn't decide to make an account until around August
I got my ps3 on December 23rd of 2010 so yes I went through the hack
On my birthday, April 25th 2011, I got a PSP GO which was completely digital which meant I could only download games through the playstation store. Needless to say I was very upset when I found out the network was down and I couldn't get any games for it. It went back to the store 2 days later for a refund. I never bought another Sony product again.
Thats me 😂 Got my ps3 in March 2011
Got it on February 2011, was frustrated with barely time I was playing online before servers went down 😅
Omg, my dad beat my ass cause he thought I lost all of his data but I kept tryna explain that all I did was play GTA 4 lmao
RIP what a waste of an ass whoopin
KieranFR I’d kick my sons ass if that was what really happened!
Mr. Zeaky Zeak
LOL
(3/16/19)
That sounds like abuse
Charles Desmonda Discipline
“Our goal is not to inconvenience gamers”
*steals 77mil gamer credit card numbers*
If it was Anonymous who had taken that information then they probably didn't intend on using it. They just needed it as leverage against Sony.
Lol, ikr? I saw that shit, too. And I was like,"Bruh.", lolol.
FinalGrade leverage for what lol
@@juliangomez660 hurt the company name as you saw it's stealing people's identity and risk of losing money
FinalGrade
The funniest part is that you really believe this.
Ugh I remembered when it happened. I was 11 at the time so I didn't really realize how serious the issue had been. At the time I was only pissed off that I couldn't access PSN.
This didn't really affect me. I'm just glad I got free games out of it lol. It'd be far worse if it happened today
Dude the free games they gave as compensation sucked.
@@HossBonaventureCEO Little Big planet was something I remember as a kid I'm glad they released those games
@@CherryFlavoredAntAss Littlebigplanet was the 4th one in the US. Lbp was almost 3 years old, Infamous was almost 2 yeats old and already had huge price cuts, wipe out was meh, and dead nation was super short.
I didn't even have a PSN account back then. Lucky me. I remember i used to play wayyyy too much Demon's Souls Offline when that happened.
It happened on Xbox in 2015 or 2016 for a week? That was when I just got it.
It was a dark month for sure. I was in the middle of a good ass game on Ascension in BO1 when it happened 😭😭
what round
Fearless loner Pfft man if I had to take a wild guess, it was at least round 15. I remember having all my weapons upgraded and then boom. *An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network*
I was playing Kino at the time
I finally got a thunder gun at round 23 and I went to upgrade it. I put it in the pack a punch machine.... sadly never saw it come out
*an error has occured*
A4L MarXGe when did I say 15 was good? Lol I had just purchased the map and had a decent squad. We’ll never know how far we would’ve gotten :(
@@barrymccockiner773 "I was in the middle of a good ass game..."
The music playing in the background really makes this much more suspenseful.
I feel like this was the 9/11 of gaming
Underrated comment
no way you just compared 911 to a 21 day outage on playstation
@@ryanreynolds6704 the OP is just trying to show the significance and chaos that came from this event similar to the events of 9/11 in the real world.
@@carljohnson7168 Right but many people died on 9/11 resulting in a war, where the 21 day outage resulted in gamers not knowing what to do with themselves for a few weeks basically speaking
@@littlej493 yeah that’s true.
I lost a friend because of this. I knew someone who was suicidal and I had talked her down multiple times. After the hack, I never saw her log in again and after mourning her for a long time, I kind of accepted that I'd never get closure and unfriended her account. I hated always seeing her PSN ID on my list with the Last Logged In date only getting longer and longer...
I think about her on occasion, praying she didn't actually do anything but... I don't have high hopes anymore.
this makes me sad
I used to play with a friend i met on ps. I played with him almost everyday for 2 years. And one day he logged off and ive never heard from him again.
imagine she logged on and she saw u werent there
She committed suicide because the servers were down? Lol
@@FriendlyNeighbourhoodSpidey don't be dense. He/she meant that they weren't able to be there during those vulnerable times and is forced to assume what happened.
I’ll never forget this day my older brother was screaming at the top of his lungs for a whole week cuz he couldn’t play black ops online 😂, meanwhile I was having the time of my life playing on my ps2
the ps2 is always my back up console
Falconhawk3784 so many good memories with that console I bought my first one my 4th grade year in 2009.
@@crackcbainefl2675 lol
Lmaoo it didn't happen to me but one of my neighbors older brothers beat his ass cuz he thought he broke his ps3 or something. He felt like such an asshole after 😂
Imagine working for Sony's technical support the day it started...
I was an Xbox gamer during these days so I was largely unaffected by this. I do remember my PS3 friends freaking out.
Me too,my friends were so scared while I was playing mw2
that shit was like 9/11 of the gaming world
I felt bad for em lol
My ass was playing Lego star wars at the time so I didnt even know or care
Gazzle Spaz same
This coming April it’ll mark 10 years ... we’re aging fast
Yeah sadly we are
@@chasemcbride15 yh man life is too short
@@chasemcbride15 for me a year feels like a month
@@jjdueuehsjsusus589 same here man. It’s sucks
@@chasemcbride15 yh man see you in this Comment in 2030
I was 16 and in college when this happened (in the UK)...crazy how time flies because I remember this so much. I was addicted to the PS3 in my teen years, so this was massive to me and that’s why I will ALWAYS remember it.
I was 10 when this happened. I did not remeber how extensive the problems where but remember the free games.
I was 4
I was 14
I was 19
I was 31.....
I Bought my ps3 in April 2011 i swear to GOD, but i didn't know till now that there was a psn hack problem yet i enjoyed the hell out of my ps3 because i never used a psn.
Lmao me too
MaskD me too 🤣
I had the original ps3 from 2009-2010 then my dad sold it. Im glad we got another one in november of 2011. I was unaware of the hack at all. I didnt even have psn
me to I never used psn that much un til PS4 comes
Dude i bought my ps3 at the same time. A day before the outage. And specifically just to play CoD online. I was so pissed when i got home and tried to sign up. I played so much campaign and zombies.
I swear to god almost every Major security breach is the same story: The company knew of the vulnerability but ignored it.
If only they knew how bad it would affect them...
I swear to god bro the psn security wasn’t either made yet powered yet or was just underpowered against the big hacking groups
I know. Same story... hackers steal from innocent people. What losers. XD
Anonymous: we dont want to create any inconvenience for the gamers
Proceeds to steal all their information
Maybe it wasn't them.
Nah it was someone else and Sony had weak a$$ security for the PS3.
It wasn’t Anonymous tho. It’s a guy named Cody Kretsinger.
If is fairly unlikely it is them.
I remember this greatly, it happened literally a month after my older brother got a PS3 and gave me his old Xbox 360. Once the hack happened he just hogged my Xbox until PSN returned. It was so annoying.
Lmao that’s actually pretty funny
@@TylerSmith-sd2oc when you give someone something you actually give them something you don't let them borrow it
@@DarthCaviar nah but thats what us siblings do brah
@@Shadows5815 word you can tell he’s a spoilt only child😂😂😂
@@DarthCaviar When someone gives you a free Xbox 360, you help them out when their PS3 temporarily doesn't work...
I do not usually leave comments on videos but this was a truly exceptional video and I feel it deserves greater recognition. As someone who was directly impacted by this attack in 2011, I still had lingering questions about the outage. This video went above and beyond answering my questions and I found the whole video engaging and interesting. Keep up the great work!
Patrick McNamara I’m also a survivor of this attack and feel that one month felt like prison
Devilry Games typo that i didn’t bother to fix lol
@Devilry Games It was only down for 3 weeks bro.
Completely agree.
I could've sworn it was down for several months. I guess my boredom just made it feel longer.
Plot twist: The hackers wanted to get the free games
@@Snusaddict98 yeah
THEFTBLUEHD we all think them for it lol
Now that hacker is playing fortnite in ps4
And stop being gay
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10 years later and Rockstar is going through the SAME THING!
IMPOSSIBLE... The Hackers back then could have forced a new forged FW-Update on PSPs and PS3 and it was a Mainframe-Takeover... Is it a Mainframe-Takeover in Rockstar's case?
You forgot to mention that the outage occured at the same time as the tsunami, and many people thought the two incidents were connected.
How the hell is even possible to connect a nature catastrophy with this?
@@boah1668 Simple, the tsunami happened just a few weeks earlier, and the failures cascaded.
How can we forget the hacker group called in their ace card.. a fricken Tsunami 😂😂
YOOOOOO FRRRR
@@Excaliber237 lmaooooooo
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I was sophomore in high school when this happened I was really upset because I had just gotten SOCOM 4 and Mortal Kombat right before this happened this essentially killed the SOCOM series it’s sad
Why did aynonomous attack Sony for?
@@unicorntomboy9736 Anonymous said the hacker that was first mentioned in this video was one of their own. That's why they attacked Sony.
@@TheFurryInShambles Sony was only doing what they were legally allowed to do to protect their platform from being held and pirated. They were wrong to attack Sony
@@unicorntomboy9736
Did you not watch the video?
@@marky3609 yes I did
I love hearing these golden age stories.
enjoy them kiddo those were some interesting moments for us
I remember kids that didn’t understand/know that PSN was hacked were making videos raging about how they couldnt play black ops 1 online. And 360 players making fun of ps3 owners for not having online. It was an interesting time 😂
same
@@Bread_Bug R.I.P. KIDS QI.
@@Bread_Bug for these xbox 360 people who were bullying ps3 users a merry fuck you
Like LITERALLY there was big chance of them losing credit card number and other personal info
Like as much console war there is there should be a fucking limit where u can laugh
I bought a ps3 in late July or early August of 2011 as a Sophomore in highschool. I didn't even know about this fiasco until a few months later when I made some new friends at school that played ps3 (most played xbox360).
I was just excited to finally take my 2 weeks worth of pay during the summer to finally buy a ps3 that I had been wanting for years. I bought it after work walking a mile to the mall. Caught the public bus, and then walked the almost 2 miles home over a big mountain holding my ps3 slim massive box. Embarrassing? Yes. Did I care? Fuck no
Benjamin Smith You’re the best man.
😂😂
Me to I buy PS3 in that year for the first time it was fan good times
That's an awesome story man!!! So determined
Good shit lmao true gamer
I still hate and I will never forgive Sony for killing the Vita.
same it couldve revived handheld devices
its not completelly dead. It just doesnt want to die. How ironic, vita translated means life.
@@aleksandarkurbalija the vita is completely dead outside Japan. Nintendo AND Sony killed the vita
dude vita was the most promising portable console but still dont understand why it just stopped progressing
the stupid sd cards. theyre like $100 for 60 gigs
Jokes on them because I was able to get some right free good games
>causes 75 million dollars in damages to Sony
"Jokes on them" xD
@@LiEnby Miss the part where thats my problem
Jack Jones little jack
The games Sony released as compensation were terrible lol. The only good one was Little Big Planet and that was old af anyways lol.
@@hanzo7616 infamous is pretty good too!!
Sony might not be the cleanest company in the planet concerning their products, but at the very least they are responsible enough to take full backlash against their wrong doings and apologize for breaking their promised delivered services. Good job Sony, you genuinely tried your best 👍
Remember when Lizardsquad shut down the PSN network on Christmas Day/Night when the PS4 was kinda new?
yeah but that was just for a day while back in 2011 psn was offline for over a month
@@chunchunmaru I lived through both and trust me the lizard shit pissed me off more I get new games new controller new headset so fucking hyped but no. But who cares now I got a pc
Paydro lmaoooo yes i do i was playin gta that day
God that lizard squad shit pissed me off so bad. I had literally tue worst christmas that year too and it made me hella depressed when that happened too
Paydro yessssss
*Watching PSN Documentary*
*Gets Xbox One Ad*
Just got one too.
Same dawg
Same here
Same
Same
Funny thing I lost 450$ and missed the welcome pack..
RIP
Rip
@Nikitos 77 Did you miss the PS3 when the PS3 welcome pack happened because you weren’t on the PS3? Or did you not get the PS3 welcome pack even when it came out?
I also didn't get the welcome back pack, because when I had originally created my psn account, I had mistyped one character in my email. And so, I was always using an email address I never had access to
Only realized it after 1 month of frustration of not being able to play online, when I had to reset the password. And of course I also lost all the trophies and stuff. Ahhhhh good old days!
@@argonauts56au1kera6 Argonxx12 1 I were not home at that time. After 2 months I got back to home and my friend messaged me : Did you got welcome pack? After researching internet I understood I missed it :) Very cool right? (no) (where I was? Answer: I were at other city. Why? Answer: Because as I saw that there is troubles with PSN I decided to visit my Grandpa. And so I got to other city.) And also I didn't had super phone at that time. So I didn't know if the problem got fixed. I'm very "lucky" ;)
I was 11 at the time in Aus and remember being down for months... now I’m told it was only 23 days wtf
Finally it’s not just me I thought it was down for months too
yeh i was 10, it was during school holidays as well, back then two weeks of school holidays felt like an eternity of freedom lmao.
Yeah I was just thinking earlier that it must have been like 3-4 months that it was down, but then read it was only 23 days!
Mandela effect
I'll never get that week of MW2 back and THAT....
is what eats at me the most each night
The time was great on xbox360 back then😏
cheesyspace big facts
BO1
NiBones it was over a month, not a week
@Josh Josh it in fact was a month
Well Nintendo is 10 steps behind in the world of online connectivity
laughs in trade evolve pokemon* fuck your Kadabra!
@Splatink at least they don’t get their servers hacked and reveal millions of personal information.
Argonxx12 1 That happens to every online network at least once . It happened to Xbox too and furthermore Nintendo Switch has terrible online
@THE BEST I’m not hating on Sony. I was making a joke but okay.
Well they don’t have security breaches so that’s that
The name was JessyAlive59.
Last seen 6 years ago.
*emptiness and Nostalgia start to increase*
JessyDead59
Their account seems active somtimes in 2012
psnprofiles.com/jessyalive59/log
Who is she?
Huhhh
Albert Wesker aktually I’m still alive man how’s it going
I’m here from the Xbox 360 vs. PS3 video. These videos are great to me. Don’t stop doing these. I appreciate your hard work and researching s big salute to you man!
Kutaragi was so far ahead of the ball. It is such a shame the old guard at Sony were/are so blind. He had the vision to create an iOS/Android like environment almost a decade before anyone else. The old guard were clueless about the web. This whole thing could have been avoided if they would have listened to Ken.
Damn straight i choose infamous for the free game after the hack.
I had two accounts. I got inFamous and Wipeout too. 😊 Good times.
😭😭😭
@@vSpiikey they gave two free games out per system and file-sharing was a huge thing back then. But Infamous and dead nation were the ones I chose.
I got my little big planet and infamous. Very good times
@@titsmcgee1611 per account. you could make a new account and get the other two games
My 10 year old playing on the wii not knowing what online even was
Can we just appreciate the fact that sony tried so hard to fix this situation hope nothing like this happens again.
Yeah, after it was their asses being put on the line too.
something like this shouldn't have been possible in the first place, DDOS is something anybody can do with a bot network, its a wonder nobody did it earlier.
cough lizard squad cough cough
Maybe Sony shouldn’t have asked for more than they could handle asking for PayPal information? User IPs who watched his RUclips videos? Sony wanted to be Tyrant but forgot that there are people out there that will put them in check.
Aged like milk
This gave me legit chills, I remember coming back home to play cod with my dad and my school mates, we couldn't even sign in! Little did we know how long it would be down for and how many games we needed online to play. Amazing video!!
Also remember red dead being my go to game in this down period!
@@Hotcatfish1 same
@@Hotcatfish1 judging by your pfp I'm pretty sure you didn't play games back then
@@lamprosvlx8596 what's the point of your comment man?
@@Hotcatfish1 showing that you're just a 10 y/o tryna be cool
10:07 the transition is sooo goood the way the music fades out and then the news reporter give the shocking news
Ikr
I remember this being in highschool. Boored to death having to go out and socialize. It was traumatic.
However it did make me play solo... And reach the highest cod zombies level I've ever had
i agree with u making friends with people is traumatic and useless
@@V_For_Vigilante edgey
Lego Stopmotions Incorporated 101
Says the bitch boy who plays with Lego toys
@@V_For_Vigilante Lmao chill
Round 2?
Ah shit … here we go again
Just the comment I was lookin for 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Congrats you just gave me Vietnam flashbacks
Facts😭
Funny!
Lmao honestly. I get PTSD from this shit.
Good documentary, took me back to when that actually happened. A shitty time for all of us PSN users. Let's just hope something like that never happens again.
Got my free InFamous because of this :)
mcwalakn Same, beat that game waayyy too many times
@@yeahjustin Yeah great fucking game, enjoyed it so much
They keep pushing this cashless society bullshit then it's going to keep happening and getting worse
I remember I would always check coming back from school every single day
We are Anomalous.
We are a Region.
Forgive and Forget.
Expecto Patronum.
Lmao
LMFAO
You would cry like a little girl when they hack you ohh I hope they hack you so good that you'll never mock them again
@@shuu7524 Oh no, they'll make it so that I can't go online for a few days, I'm quaking in my boots.
@@shuu7524 its a joke... A JOKE
We're doing a sequel
We're back by popular demand
Come on everybody, strike up the band!
I remember when this happened. I was so frustrated by the lack of information about the outage that I went out and bought a PC and never looked back since. It's really cool to see this event well documented like this.
I used to debate furiously with my friends who were Xbox fans about which system was better. I was a PlayStation guy so when this happened I was incredibly salty lol 😂. They didn’t let me live it down for a long time. Good times!
Emmanuel A that’s all they have against us tho.
Yeah, but they don't have any games anymore, and have to rely on Nintendo to make good grace with the public.
It's good thing Xbox has never had a problem like this........
@@eiloen I went through 4 Xbox 360's and my Xbox One almost blew up my apartment by short circuiting. Xbox has it's own problems.
Xbox got hacked to.
does anyone remember Whiteboy7thst's rant about the servers being down
I haven't heard that name in years lmao.
@@mikeockslong5047 that man was my childhood
My childhood
i only found out about him because psn was down lol
That man fell off, bad.
Whos here because of the outage right now
Me
Me because someone may have been hackinv all psn servers
Me
Me in tweaking rn this is painful 😢
This shit Is sad
who else was online while this happened.. It was scary.
Parallel Neon lol
Damn was playin little big planet while it happend.
advan GT was playing gta 4
joel robert shittt. Must be hard
advan GT Not really because i was playing story mode at the time.
Glad I was on GameCube during this time!
I was on the Nintendo Wii 😂
Lol I had all those but my ps was the best
Good Console!
I was a Wii and 360 person around that time
I was on PSP.
I felt like I was watching a TV doc
Just a thought, but it seems to me that the PS3-Vita era (About years: 2006-2012) were PlayStation's darkest years. PS3 having a rough start, Vita failed in sales, and the PSN Hack.
True tho
What? The vitas PSN functionality was amazing ..
I’m sure Microsoft was laughing when this was happening.
And still ps3 has more sells than xbox 360 after all the chaos the ps3 got they still won that proves how sony is better than Microsoft
@@qp-r2276 No they don't lmao.
@@STGPancake69 they do lmao
@@STGPancake69 they do lmao lmao
@Rodrigues_27 we can play free online and what are you XBOX LIVE ps3 won more sells and got chaos by Hackers and what still won
Yup Just bought mortal kombat 9 played 4 matches and then PlayStation went down , I was never so disappointed
Kent Lincoln i bought mk9 was about to play then boom 😂
Shao Kahn invaded the tech realm and lead his Tarkatan hordes to destroy every chip.
Plot Twist: Microsoft paid anonymous to DDOS attack Sony’s network
Dude that been funny but anonymous would never do that there focused on only exploiting
Haha
sad to tell you this but they tried attacking the Microsoft servers but with the xbox live being paid for it was really hard for them to heck they even attacked the Wii servers
@@ghostellaandghostvortex1549 I could see this Xbox has not been keen on the home brew community too
@@emilioduran3430 You do realize they don't go after consumers right.
When this was happening, I was chilling on the couch playing on my Xbox 360.
Gotta remember PSN was free when it 1st came out. It was bound to happen. Still love playstation!
It's still free on PS3, only charged on the ps4
PSN still is free, it's PS Plus that costs money.
@@The7Reaper yes, and PS Plus is required to use most features of PSN
@@sarah-_-6730 Mostly just to play games online but free-to-play games don't need PS Plus and don't need to play single player games.
@@The7Reaper But you still need it to play most games online, which is just plain theft from Sony.
"Communication is key"
PS4: I agree, that's why we gonna charge $60 a year.
Edit: I had to change the price of the PS Plus otherwise this comment section was going to stone me lol
Also Thanks for 700 likes!!!
Dog Eyes are you an Xbox player?
Prolly is ps plus is $10 xbox one needs xbl gold for a free to play game SAD
You’ve never owned a PS4 if you think it’s $90
Pixel Tits yes plus tax which makes it 60$
@Pixel Tits u can also just pay 5€ a month
I know it was 6 months ago, but respect to you using the song Sunset Bridge from Persona 5
Striker - Austin I know right. It is so good hearing that
I remember this vividly... My buddy and I were playing Black Ops 1 and suddenly, we got the fabled message "PlayStation Network is currently undergoing maintence". Thought it would only last a few hours, then 23 days went by...
wow, must have felt like hell
meanwhile me just chilling with my PS2 not knowing any of this was happening 😂
"makes new account."
*xP lObBiEs?*
To those IT and Computer Technicians there who worked hard and sacrificial Overtimes to put back the PSN to it's original and improved form, thank you very much. :)
I swear, Mystic is like the “Scott the woz” for PlayStation fans. I love your videos and how much love and work you put into these videos, keep up the good work Mystic
NCRanger 101 fax
I was only 8 at the time, and I'm pretty sure I got my PS3 a couple weeks after all this had settled down, but even I vaguely remember hearing about this while my family watched the news. Never knew PSN was down for so long though, I think I always imagined in my mind that it was closer to a week. Very interesting to learn about.
I remember this. My dad was like “what the fuck”
I had an Xbox and my older brother had a PS3 in 2011. When this happened he basically took over my Xbox. So I suffered from this event even though I had an Xbox.
Asaptaco id be soo fuckin pissed
lmfao
Why does anyone care
If there is a will, then you can do it
Sony isn‘t fully responsible for it
I mean even CIA got hacked
ESPECIALLY if you decide its a great idea to piss off all the hackers on your network by removing the ability to run linux then going after anyone who trys to enable that feature again xD
@Lord_of_Lords of course it’s not Sony’s fault for not allowing Linux and pissing off hackers which gave hackers a motive to hack the PSN.
And hey I don’t hate Sony, they make good products and services.
"Sony isn‘t fully responsible for it".
Umm yes they were? The way the hackers got in were by exploiting KNOWN vulnerabilities. This means that Sony knew about these vulnerabilities BEFORE the hacker exploited them.
Why didn't Sony patch these issues in the first place?
@@jakeblack2487 yea cause they just told the hackers "Hey go fuck up 77 MILLON people's lives" Like tf to hell with you.
Anyone here because PSN is down as of 21:22 EDT Sep 30 2024?
Yuuup
Me
Me sirrr
yuppp
Bro, you add a real journalistic feel to these documentaries, and I just want to thank you for this...(thumbs up)
The hack that broke my childhood heart...;(
zKrepto I just wanted to play some black ops 1 man😔
17:41 Holy crap the music choice is PERFECT for this scene of the documentary!
Persona 5 OST - Sunset Bridge
Persona music is perfect for anything.
I’d just got my PS3 hooked up to the internet the day before this happened so the free ps plus was a nice treat for something I never felt I missed out on
Yeah I remembered when we got hacked by lizard squad on Christmas 😂😂
i remember that
I was mad ass shit I had just gotten an Xbox one and couldn’t play lmao
@@OscarHernandez-uu9qb it wasn't on xbox 1 it was Ps3 and xbx360
Lol yeah that, I remember trying to play gta 5 with a friend on christmas but fucking lizard squad or whoever the fuck they are decided to ruin our fun
I got pissed off that I couldn’t play gta v on Xbox one
This is what got me infamous and little big planet aye
YungKobi bruh same
Same dude lol infamous was. And still is a kickass game
Don't Ya Remember Modnation Racers? :D
What? You got inFAMOUS for free? Nah.... Wait whu?
@@Sawzei my dad got it aswell 👌
Shocked to hear the name "Socom(2)" on a 2019 video. That game is where it all started for me on the ps2. God i miss those days/nights.
Yeah what happend with Socom. Played it and it was so much fun why isnt there series coming back?
@@daxexter2754 ikr? I grew up playing that
Back here as a reminder of why I will not be buying Helldivers 2 after I planned to get it to play with friends that already got it
They reversed it, you won't need a PSN anymore.
Man i remember all this. I was in highschool at the time. And all i did was game. I was getting withdrawals from not being able to play online
🤧
I remember this.
I was just happy to get two free games after. We got all the games for free because we had multiple accounts as well!
I remember when I got hacked. They took my dads debit card number and purchases so my dad had to take a new debit card... He also lost money from hackers coming and stealing my account they also removed my password so I couldn’t access it for 8 years... I got it back with only 1 Game. And that was Slender.
Edit: I also forgot to say that I got Terraria back as well.
Sad :( I really feel bad for your dad the most tho
Leonardo_Playz_YT did you not make a new account?
what no freakin way was it that bad that they couldn’t access their card?
Leonardo_Playz_YT same happened to me too brother 😩
Thats why you dont leave your card info dummy
Who is here after hearing Sony got hacked again????
Sony as a company is so weak, and the fact they still have not spoke out about this speaks volumes. Rockstar immediately got the FBI involved once someone started leaking their GTA 6 footage, embarrassing.
@@Davidrichmonddthe hack was debunked and determined to be a hoax.