Less than a year after the massive hacking attack which lead to PSN being rebuilt, Sony announces they have taken down 2 digital PSP games from the PSN network. It was discovered both games were being used to launch hacking attacks on the service.
The games taken down were Hot Shots Tennis and Motorstorm: Arctic Edge with the official reason for the removal due to "stability improvement." The real reason was due to hackers using those games to once again attack the PSN network with the main source involving the exploit the PS Vita has when running in PSP mode which allows homebrew programs to run on the PSN network.
No date was given by Sony when either game would be returning to the PSN Store and servers.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/hot-sh...g-issues/4053/
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