According to Kotaku, the PS3 could be hacked again with the new potential threat being compared to the PSN Outage attack should it actually occur in the near future.
The new dongle device works in a similar way to the previous one Sony said they managed to remove with the changes to the PSN firmware (PSN 2.0) but the new device was able to get around all the new security features from the recent firmware updates.
It could also be troubling to Sony who had promised the PS3 and PSN couldn't be hacked that badly again and the new changes to PSN were designed to prevent it from ever occurring again.
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That next time may already be upon us, with videos and reports surfacing showing a USB "dongle" similar to that used by the infamous PS Jailbreak being plugged into a PS3 and seemingly allowing the user to access a disc-free version of Pro Evolution Soccer 2012.
So, yeah, it looks to be exactly the same kind of device used last time, only this time it gets around the copy protection routines put in place by Sony after the last time.
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http://kotaku.com/5851968/has-the-pl...-cracked-again
EDIT: It appears there is some issues with Kotaku's report ranging from the new dongle only was meant for "older firmware" PS3s models and not for hacking, being just a new jailbreak but not affect PSN, or being the start of a future attack.