PlayStation 4: Source Used by ISIS to Coordinate Paris Attacks

After the Friday's attack of ISIS on France, the government is taking strict actions to track down the possible planning platforms and ways of the terrorist. However, in the modern world of fast technology, there are multiple unique ways of communicating rather than just making some typical phone calls and messages.

According to Forbes, authorities are stepping on strict grounds to reveal the source of the planning of the massacre, which killed at least 127 people in Paris, leaving 300 injured. And the possible involvement of most popular gaming console in the world, Sony's PlayStation 4 was considered.

The hunt for the convicted terrorist has led to multiple raids in nearby Brussels.

Jambon had said that terrorists are using Sony's PS4 console nowadays to communicate and plan their attacks, as mentioned by Mashable. He was referring to the PS4's Party Chat feature. Through this, the gamers can exchange text and voice messages with each other individually or in a group. While Jambon only referred to the PlayStation 4, the Party Chat feature can be accessed from PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita as well, and even from a PlayStation app for iOS and Android.

However, the possible link was introduced between an attack and PS4 by a Forbes article by, titled "How Paris ISIS Terrorist May Have Used PlayStation 4 to Discuss and Plan Attacks.", as reported by Kotaku. It theorized that that a terrorist could also "spell out an attack plan in Super Mario Maker's coins and share it privately with a friend," Through this the Belgian official linked PlayStation to Paris attacks.

Forbes originally wrote, "The hunt for those responsible (eight terrorists were killed Saturday night, but accomplices may still be at large) led to a number of raids in nearby Brussels. Evidence reportedly turned up included at least one PlayStation 4 console.

Belgian federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon said outright that the PS4 is used by ISIS agents to communicate and was selected due to the fact that it's notoriously hard to monitor. "PlayStation 4 is even more difficult to keep track of than WhatsApp," he said.

However, Jan Jambon made those comments on November 10, three days before the Paris attack, which Forbes overlooked. Jambon was actually referring to the Belgium's security weaknesses, not the possible connection between the PS4 and last week's terrorism.

As there is no strong evidence regarding the connection, the possibility of communication through PS4 will always be there. PlayStation Network involves 65 million active monthly users and it's quite hard to strictly monitor every bit of the communication.

However, Forbes mentioned that in 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and CIA actually embedded themselves in games like World of Warcraft to track down terrorist commutations.