PC Virus Doctors' Computer Repair in Dallas has learned that the Amazon EC2, Elastic Computing Cloud, was suspicioned to be involved in the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) against Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) creating the second largest security breach in U.S. history. The breach affected more than 100 million customers second to Heartland Payment Systems breach in 2009.
The Amazon servers were not hacked but actually purchased for pennies an hour that allowed a hacker access to Amazon servers to then attack the PSN; the attacker's Amazon account has since been suspended. Sony just restarted their PlayStation network yesterday, May 14 after it was shut down on April 20th. Amazon is not responding to any requests about the allegations that their servers were involved in the attack and neither is the FBI responding to any information about the incident(s), according to the Bloomberg article.
Cloud servers are an ideal vehicle as they can facilitate such hacking activities while the cloud servers have difficulty detecting the good guys and the bad guys. Sony reports that the attack was professional and very sophisticated while 31% of cyber attacks occur in the United States up from 24% last year and 85% of U.S. businesses have been attacked according to Ponemon Institute.
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