Sony’s issued a statement in response to yesterday’s sporadic string of PSN outages, saying it is investigating a possible ‘cyber attack.’ Yesterday the Internet misfits known as ‘Anonymous’ waged an all-out assault against Sony, flooding servers through several waves of denial of service attacks.

The aim? According to AnonOps, payback for violating consumer rights and ‘abuse of the judicial system,’ in reference to the ongoing Geohot trial.

Here’s the statement from Sony:

We are currently investigating, including the possibility of targeted behavior of an outside party. If this is indeed caused by such an act, we want to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service. Our engineers are working to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customers’ continued support.

Thanks, IGN.

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