The first shots in the war that eventually led to the hack of Sony's online services were fired in January, when a team of hackers unlocked the PlayStation 3.
In the five months since, one of the key hackers was sued, then settled with Sony - reluctantly, as it turned out. George "Geohot" Hotz found a sympathetic group of hackers who had already launched Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against numerous organizations, most involved in the protection of intellectual property, such as the MPAA.
The "Anonymous" collective mounted a protest against Sony. But did it actually break into the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment, putting personal information and credit-card information at risk for millions of customers?
After that, things got messy very quickly. The first report of trouble with the PlayStation Network set off alarm bells worldwide, but consumers didn't seem too concerned, at least initially. Even Facebook goes down occasionally, right?
But as things dragged on, the PlayStation hack story raised several questions, basically devolving into parallel tracks. The issues were/are:
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