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2011 PlayStation Network outage, the Glossary

The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the service.^[1]

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AllClear ID

AllClear ID (aka AllClear and formerly Debix) provides products and services meant to protect people and their personal information from threats related to identity theft.

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Anonymous (hacker group)

Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement primarily known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations and the Church of Scientology. 2011 PlayStation Network outage and Anonymous (hacker group) are cyberattacks.

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Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is a city in the north central region of Alabama.

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Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party

Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party is a party video game developed by Magenta Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.

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Canadian dollar

The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada.

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Capcom

is a Japanese video game company.

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CBC News

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Clone Wars Adventures

Clone Wars Adventures was an online virtual world based on the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Credit report monitoring

Credit report monitoring or company tracking is the monitoring of one's credit history in order to detect any suspicious activity or changes.

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Cryptographic hash function

A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with a fixed size of n bits) that has special properties desirable for a cryptographic application.

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Data breach

A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information".

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Data Protection Act 1998

The Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29) (DPA) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom designed to protect personal data stored on computers or in an organised paper filing system.

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Daybreak Game Company

Daybreak Game Company LLC is an American video game developer based in San Diego.

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DC Universe Online

DC Universe Online (DCUO) is a free-to-play action combat massively multiplayer online game set in the fictional universe of DC Comics.

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Dead Nation

Dead Nation is a top-down shoot 'em up video game for the PlayStation 3 developed by video game developer Housemarque.

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Echochrome

(stylized as echochrome) is a 2008 puzzle game created by Sony's Japan Studio and Game Yarouze for PlayStation 3 from the PlayStation Store and for PlayStation Portable (PSP).

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Email address

An email address identifies an email box to which messages are delivered.

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Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.

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EverQuest

EverQuest is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) originally developed by Verant Interactive and 989 Studios for Windows PCs.

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EverQuest II

EverQuest II is a 3D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) originally developed and published by Sony Online Entertainment for Microsoft Windows PCs and released in November 2004.

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EverQuest Online Adventures

EverQuest Online Adventures (EQOA) was a 2003 3D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for the PlayStation 2.

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Everybody's Golf 2

Everybody's Golf 2, known in Japan as and in North America as Hot Shots Golf 2, is the second game in the Everybody's Golf series and the second game released for PlayStation.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Fandango at Home

Fandango at Home (formerly known as Vudu) is an American digital video store and streaming service owned by Fandango Media, a joint-venture between NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Free Realms

Free Realms was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) set in a fantasy-themed world called Sacred Grove.

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G. K. Butterfield

George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. (born April 27, 1947) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district from 2004 to 2022.

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G4 (American TV network)

G4 (also known as G4TV) was an American pay television and digital network owned by NBCUniversal and later Comcast Spectacor that primarily focused on video games.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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George Hotz

George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur, and software engineer.

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Howard Stringer

Sir Howard Stringer (born 19 February 1942) is a Welsh-American businessman.

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Hulu

Hulu (styled hulu in its logo) is an American subscription streaming media and content hub within the Disney+ streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Hustle Kings

Hustle Kings is a pool video game by British developer VooFoo Studios for the PlayStation 3.

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Identity theft

Identity theft, identity piracy or identity infringement occurs when someone uses another's personal identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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Infamous (video game)

Infamous (stylized as inFAMOUS) is an action-adventure video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3.

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InformationWeek

InformationWeek is a digital magazine which conducts corresponding face-to-face events, virtual events, and research.

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Jack Tretton

Jack Tretton is a member of the advisory boards for Genotaur, an artificial intelligence startup, and LifeApps Digital Media, a digital publisher of products and services focused on health, fitness, and sports topics.

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Jennifer Stoddart

Jennifer Stoddart (born 1949) was the sixth Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

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Kaz Hirai

is a Japanese businessman.

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Killzone: Liberation

Killzone: Liberation is a third-person shooter video game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable (PSP).

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LittleBigPlanet

LittleBigPlanet (LBP - stylised as LittleBIGPlanet) is a puzzle platform video game series created and produced by British developer Media Molecule and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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LittleBigPlanet (2009 video game)

LittleBigPlanet (sometimes referred to as LittleBigPlanet PSP to differentiate it from the PlayStation 3 game of the same name) is a puzzle-platform game for the PlayStation Portable developed by SCE Studio Cambridge in conjunction with Media Molecule and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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LocoRoco

LocoRoco (Japanese: ロコロコ, Romaji: Rokoroko) is a platform video game developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, which was released worldwide in 2006 for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld game console.

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LocoRoco Cocoreccho!

is a platform game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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LoveFilm

LoveFilm was a United Kingdom–based provider of DVD-by-mail and streaming video on demand in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany.

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Mary Bono

Mary Bono Oswald (née Whitaker and formerly Mary Bono Mack, born October 24, 1961) is an American politician, businesswoman, and lobbyist who served Palm Springs and most of central and eastern Riverside County, California, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1998 to 2013.

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ModNation Racers

ModNation Racers is a 2010 go-kart racing video game developed by United Front Games and San Diego Studio for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Patapon 2

is a 2008 video game co-developed by Pyramid and Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable (PSP).

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Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard used to handle credit cards from major card brands.

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Personal data

Personal data, also known as personal information or personally identifiable information (PII), is any information related to an identifiable person.

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Pirates of the Burning Sea

Pirates of the Burning Sea is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) previously developed by Flying Lab Software and Portalus Games, and currently supported by Vision Online Games.

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PlanetSide (video game)

PlanetSide was a massively-multiplayer online first-person-shooter video game published by Sony Online Entertainment and released in May 2003.

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PlayStation

is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines. 2011 PlayStation Network outage and PlayStation are Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.

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PlayStation Network

PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment. 2011 PlayStation Network outage and PlayStation Network are PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation Portable

The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PoxNora

PoxNora: Battlefield of the Immortals is a multiplayer online game that combines a digital collectible card game with a turn-based strategy game in a fantasy setting.

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Privacy Commissioner of Canada

The privacy commissioner of Canada (Commissaire à la protection de la vie privée du Canada) is a non-partisan ombudsman and officer of the Parliament of Canada.

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Protiviti

Protiviti Inc.

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Pursuit Force

Pursuit Force is a 2005 vehicular combat shooter game developed by Bigbig Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable.

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Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty

Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (known as Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty in Europe and Australia) is a platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network in August 2008.

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Richard Blumenthal

Richard Blumenthal (born February 13, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Connecticut, a seat he has held since 2011.

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Security hacker

A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Sony Entertainment Network

Sony Entertainment Network (shortened as SEN or 3D World Created by Sony, formerly Sony Network Entertainment) was a digital media delivery service operated by Sony.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) is a Japanese-American multinational video game and digital entertainment company of Sony.

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Sophos

Sophos Ltd. is a British security software and hardware company.

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Star Wars Galaxies

Star Wars Galaxies was a Star Wars- themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows, developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts.

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Super Stardust HD

Super Stardust HD is a downloadable multidirectional shooter released for the PlayStation 3 by Sony Interactive Entertainment, developed by the Finnish company Housemarque.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Last Guy

The Last Guy is a PlayStation Network title for the PlayStation 3.

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The Register

The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.

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Toronto Metropolitan University

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU or Toronto Met), formerly Ryerson University, is a public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes was a high fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Sigil Games Online and published by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE).

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What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord?

is a real-time strategy game for the PlayStation Portable.

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Wipeout HD

Wipeout HD is a futuristic racing video game developed by Studio Liverpool and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage

Also known as 2011 PlayStation Network Outages, 80710A06, April 2011 PlayStation Network Outages, PSN breach, PSN hack, PSN outage, Play station network outage, PlayStation Network April 2011 outage, PlayStation Network hack, PlayStation Network outage, PlayStation Network shutdown.

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See also

2010s internet outages

2011 crimes

PlayStation 3

PlayStation Network

PlayStation Portable

Sony Interactive Entertainment

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