GeoHot Hacked the Sony Playstation 3

23 January 2010 by Vinay 12 Comments

Georze Hotz aka GeoHot infamous father of iPhone jailbreak announced that he hacked the Sony Playstation . GeoHot said he was working from 3 years, 2 months and 11 days in Playstation Project. According to GeoHot he got read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. He also managed to dumps of LV0 and LV1 and the NAND without removing it or a modchip. Means you can flash the NAND without any hardware hacking.

The exploit has not yet been made public because GeoHot feared that Sony can update the firmware or launch a new layer of security to make it unusable. GeoHot also compliment to Sony for making hacking very hard on PS3 gaming console. GeoHot likely to post new updates on his blog, in the coming hours, days, or weeks. Stay tuned with us because lots of other information will be posted here as soon as he finishes.

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mogli said:

great guy =)

# 24 January 2010 at 3:35 am

faheus said:

Geohot hacked the PS3 in 5 months 3 in Boston 2 at Home

the PS3 was 3 years unhacked

# 24 January 2010 at 11:36 am

Colin said:

He’s a actually only been working on the project for 5 weeks. The 3 years was the length of time since the PS3 was released.

# 24 January 2010 at 12:08 pm

Squirrel61 said:

The quotes are incorrect.
First, the already mentioned time that Geohot needed for his hack.
Second, his remarks doesn’t necessarily mean that you can flash the NAND without hardware hacking. You need a custom tailored hardware hack to get the access he is having at this moment.
Third, according to Geohot the hack can’t be made unusable by software (firmware updates) only. But the reason he doesn’t publish it yet, is that software updates can make it much harder to do.

# 24 January 2010 at 5:04 pm

Moovuly said:

Looks like it could be a happy new year for us ps3 users!?

# 24 January 2010 at 10:08 pm

mansour said:

wow!!! the best work !!!! happy new yaer !

# 25 January 2010 at 12:54 am

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# 25 January 2010 at 2:27 am

javad said:

very gooooooooooooooooooood

# 25 January 2010 at 6:34 am

Ali said:

great job
he work on hacking just “Took 5 weeks, 3 in Boston, 2 here, very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not so simple software.” not 3 years and …….

# 25 January 2010 at 8:17 am

Ivan_PSP said:

This is just pure bullshit this guy is just trying to get some attention without proven claims. I won’t believe this until i get my PS3 hack. For now only stupid people think is true.

# 25 January 2010 at 3:46 pm