Perpetrator Pleads Guilty to Waging DDoS Attacks Against Sony PSN

An individual in New Hampshire pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to wage distributed denial of service cyberattacks in October 2016 against the Sony PlayStation Network, causing “massive disruption” to the internet, said DOJ Wednesday. DOJ is withholding the identity of the defendant, who was underage at the time of the crimes. The DDoS attacks caused the Sony, Twitter, Amazon, PayPal, Tumblr, Netflix and Southern New Hampshire University websites “to become either completely inaccessible, or accessible only intermittently for several hours” on a single day, said DOJ. Sony’s losses from lost advertising and “remediation costs” included about $2.7 million in net revenue, it said. Sony Interactive Entertainment didn’t respond to questions Thursday.