German Police & Sony Raids on Hacker's Home !
Feb 27, 2011
Sony has stepped up their game in Germany. Early this week, the home of German hacker "graf_chokolo," known in real life as Alexander Egorenkov, was raided by a Sony representative backed up by local police. Sony seized Egorenkov's computer equipment and PS3 consoles as evidence in an upcoming court case. Within a half hour after breaking the raid on his blog, Egorenkov had uploaded all of his hacking progress to various sites on the internet for other hackers to work on. From Egorenkov's blog: "Guys, SONY was today at my home with police and got all my stuff and accounts. So be careful from now on. Guys, I don't joke, it's serious. And to prove it, I kept my word and uploaded all my ...stuff. Upload it everywhere so SONY couldn't remove it easily. Grab it guys, it contains lots of knowledge... [links omitted] It contains just everything I know." It showed up on several sites, such as PS3Crunch, who willingly linked to the files. The site was then hi...