Looking Back At The Great PSN Hack, Fifteen Years Later - Beyond 939

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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NOTE: due to some technical issues, this week’s episode is audio only. After almost 20 years, Sony is reportedly retiring The PlayStation Network’s name and logo. What they’ll call it now is anyone’s guess, but it’s as good an excuse as any to take a look back at the 2011 debacle that led to Sony getting hacked, millions of users having their data compromised, and the PSN being taken offline for almost a month. In other news, Valve made a weird change to Counter Strike 2 that not everyone’s wild about, which has us thinking about how much games are a moving target, from Crimson Desert’s rapid post-launch updates to Fornite’s gradual transformation since its early access days, before it was even a battle royale. Some games we’ve been playing include Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s shiny new PS5 upgrade, Romeo is a Dead Man, Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties, and High on Life 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Beyond and hello and welcome once again to IGN's weekly PlayStation show.
0:04.0	I'm your host Max Scovalin. Coming up, Sony is reportedly retiring the term the PlayStation Network.
0:09.0	What should they call it instead?
0:10.0	Plus, let's take a trip down memory lane to the great PSN outage of 2011,
0:14.0	which celebrates its 15th anniversary next month.
0:17.0	Let's get into it. Now, are all the traitors present? Let's get started, shall we?
0:33.6	From rags to riches.
0:34.6	I'm so sick of this. Working like a dog and being treated worse. Yorkshire
0:39.0	to New York. Poor climbers you and me. A life dedicated to revenge. Let's make this an occasion
0:45.1	to remember. A woman of substance on Channel 4. Stream now. I am joined this week by my wonderful
0:51.8	producer, Nick Maié, who is producing and on the show this week.
0:55.6	How are you doing, Nick?
0:56.4	Doing pretty good.
0:57.5	I'm pulling the wires, punching buttons, doing everything at once.
1:01.5	It's a good balancing act there.
1:04.0	You also have prepared a kind of wonderful little presentation about the history of the PSN hack,
1:09.1	which I want to get into it a minute.
1:10.3	But there's also a couple of odd little things that Sony is reportedly doing.
1:14.5	This is, again, this is kind of unconfirmed, unofficial announcement type stuff.
1:18.4	But let's see.
1:19.6	For starters, there's a report going around that they are testing dynamic pricing on the PlayStation store,
1:24.7	which is not a great thing.
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