Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console has been hacked by George Hotz, or 'Geohot', the guy who first hacked the iPhone 3Gs.
While Hotz actually spent five weeks cracking the PS3 with "very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not-so-simple software", he noted that it had never been done in the three years plus that the console had been on the market.
"3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system," he blogged.
However, the PS3 hack is not like the iPhone one, where Hotz provided a jail-breaking programme called Blackra1n, that unlocked the iPhone in less than 30 seconds. The information he will release on the hacked PS3 is for research purposes only, he says.
Hotz is not yet ready to divulge his secrets and for now has provided no information on how he plans to mod the hacked PS3: "As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet."