Five years ago today, Sony admitted the great PSN hack

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Five years ago, PlayStation Network was hacked and the personal details of 77m users accessed.
It was the largest security breach of its kind to ever hit console gamers, and an event with huge repercussions for PlayStation - both in the short term for its users, left for weeks without access to online services, and longer term as Sony sought to win back customer trust.
It began with Anonymous, the umbrella-term hacktivist group which had been bombarding Sony's servers with distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. Anonymous had brought PSN to its knees several times in April 2011 in the run-up to the actual privacy breach.
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