PS4 Hacked Confirmed?!?

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Well ladies and gents, it’s official. The Playstation 4 has been modified in such a way that makes it possible to run pirated/backup games. After the consoles long and successful run, selling over 22 million consoles since its release in 2013, it might be time for the console to slow down. This literally couldn’t have come at a worse time. Both Microsoft and Sony have been bragging and teasing their new lineup for the upcoming E3 and with Sony’s crown jewel tampered with, they may not receive quite the amount of revenue they would’ve expected.

As of right now the hack has not gone international, it’s currently gaining popularity in Brazil, at certain retailers. The Russian crackers behind the hack claim that the exploit is undetectable on Sony’s end. According to some writers at UOL Jogos, a popular Brazilian gaming website, they had the hack performed to their consoles in Sao Paulo and to their surprise the hack worked.

As expected, Sony isn’t too happy about the hack and has been sending out cease and desist letters out to the Brazilian retailers who are selling the hack. While the hack itself is not illegal, the retailers often bundle the hack with 10 games of the buyers choice and charge an additional $15 per pirated game.

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I’m not sure what to make of this news really. I don’t know if it’s true, false, partly true or what?!

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So it begins…

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This is crap and not modified code running, its not anything that’s worth talking about…

People who work hard braking into consoles security and actually “hack” the console are brilliant minds and often get overlooked by the community.

It’s simply a glitch that basically duplicates games, which in technical terms is piracy, but it is absolutely not a hack.

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“The PS4 hack involves cloning the consoles NAND using a Raspberry Pi and then spoofing the information to an end users console.”

sounds pretty ingenious to me

either way, something like this introduce’s a big step to “jailbreaking” a PS4

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I can’t even make my rasp play gba games.

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No, it really doesn’t. Reading and writing the PS4 flash doesn’t provide any more information or progress towards a hack for the console. It might allow piracy but the console still has the same hurdles we need to jump over.

Like RedEyeX32 said, this really isn’t a hack in the sense that we usually refer to like an exploit to run unsigned code.