Tag archive: George Hotz

Just when you thought the massive hacker stories were over for the evening, another twist comes in: Hacker George 'GeoHot' Hotz, who recently settled a lawsuit with Sony for publishing a PlayStation 3 crack online, now works for Facebook, according to various sources. His exact position with the company is unclear, but he may be on a the development team tasked wit building the social network's rumored new iPad app. The rumor… Read More

In response to a Congressional subcommittee's inquiry into the massive data breach of its PlayStation Network that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million gamers, Sony claims to have evidence that those responsible are part of the infamous international hacktivist group “Anonymous.” “Sony has been the victim of a very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack,”… Read More

The sound of gnashing teeth you hear may be caused by the molars of disgruntled Sony gamers: what was first an annoying outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity media service has swollen into an extended crisis for the company. And as the outage nears its one-week mark, Sony has come forward to say it has no idea when it will be able to bring PlayStation Network back online. “I know you are waiting for additional… Read More

Sony has a bit of a problem on its hands. For a few days now, users have experienced a total blackout on the company's PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services. The loss of access is largely believed to the work of the hacker group Anonymous, which has pledged to keep the pressure on the Japan-based company in the wake of a very public legal dust-up with PlayStation 3 jailbreak hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz. Sony's… Read More

The fight between Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) and famous jailbreak hacker George Hotz (aka GeoHot) continued this week, reports CNet. But this time, the jabs came from Hotz's camp. According to court papers published on Groklaw.net, Hotz's legal team, led by attorney Stewart Kellar, filed numerous motions on Friday that argue that the lawsuit against Hotz should be dropped altogether. The first reason given by… Read More

Sony's legal war against master jailbreaker George Hotz continues this week with a federal magistrate granting Sony permission to access Hotz's PayPal account records, reports Wired. Hotz, a 21-year-old hacker who goes by the handle “GeoHot,” published the first full jailbreak for the PlayStation 3 game console on his website in 2009. The subpoena, issued by San Francisco's Magistrate Joseph Spero, gives Sony the… Read More

A US federal magistrate judge has ruled that Sony may learn the identities of anyone who visited the website of PlayStation 3 jailbreak hacker George Hotz since January 2009, Wired reports. Hotz — a renowned 21-year-old hacker, famous for his iPhone jailbreaks, who goes by the handle GeoHot — has been accused of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for hacking the Sony PS3 in a way that allows users to install whatever software they… Read More

Sony’s been waging war against PS3 hackers recently, and in the latest battle development they seem to have the up. After Sony originally claimed users that hacked their PS3 consoles would have their network access terminated, Destructoid reports that modifiers have found a way to unban themselves while also banning others as they see fit (as long as a hacker is in the possession of another PS3 user’s assigned console ID). Sony has had its hands… Read More

Embattled Playstation 3 hacker George “Geohot” Hotz is coming to terms with the reality of being sued by a major multinational corporation: the plantiff typically has a lot more lawyers and a lot more cash than the defendant does. “Put it this way, Sony has 5 lawyers, I have 2. I'd like to level the playing field, and really get some hard hitters in there,” Hotz wrote on his website. To help make up the difference,… Read More

A federal judge has ruled that famed Playstation 3 hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz must turn over the tools of his trade and allow Sony to sift through his computer's hard drive, according to Wired. Hotz' attorney, Stewart Kellar, objected to the ruling on the grounds that complying meant that Sony would be able to “observe” all of his client's files. “That's the breaks,” said U.S. district… Read More

A session at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas, a game developer's conference, hints that the Move may not be locked down to the PS3 forever. The session was described as a “…talk that will bring developers up to speed on developing for the PlayStation Move controller. We will cover developing for the new PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter accessory. We will discuss the new Move Server project that will make it possible for academics and hobbyists… Read More

Someone over at Sony is in big trouble. Less than a month after the company launched its legal armada against the hacker group that jailbroke the Playstation 3 game console and released the how-to details online, someone at the company accidentally retweeted the “jailbreak” code through an official Sony Twitter account, reports Engadget. Here's what happened:  Twenty-four-year-old self-proclaimed geek Travis la Marr (aka… Read More

A California judge has granted Sony a temporary restraining order against George Hotz, who—in addition to famously jailbreaking the Apple iPhone, also developed a method to jailbreak the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console, enabling others to install alternative operating systems and homebrew software. Under the restraining order, Hotz is no longer allowed to publish information about the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, and must turn over his… Read More

Sony has taken legal action against hackers who managed to crack the Playstation 3′s security codes. Sony says the hackers recently began spreading a set of tools based on their work that could potentially allow pirated games to be run on the console. Those cited in the complaint include famed iPhone hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz and a group of hackers known as fail0verflow. Fail0verflow announced in December that the group had… Read More

Apple has wanted to give iPhone hacker George Hotz a stern talking-to for a while now, but it looks like Hotz may have a new tech nemesis brewing. George Hotz told BBC news that he has successfully hacked Sony’s PlayStation 3—and it only took him 5 weeks. Hotz claims he started the hack last summer, analyzing the console for about three weeks, and then finally cracked the PS3 in about two weeks not too long ago. The Sony PS3 was the only game… Read More