The security contractors gave the males the know-how and capability to launch the attack, which has crippled Sony's online gaming network for up-to a week.
The males already had the ambition to attack Sony, and they were given the training to carry out the attack.
The attacks are a long term strategic interest for U.S government who wish to covertly train young, naive would be hackers into attacking corporations who have security vulnerabilities.
U.S government wish for corporate America to be secure, so are eager to train up low level script kids, showing them in practical terms how to exploit vulnerabilities known by the contractors.
This is to prevent sophisticated hackers belonging to regimes abroad from taking advantage of the vulnerabilities and using them for instance to attack critical national infrastructure, such as energy & utilities.
The overall goal is to secure corporate America using actual attacks to bring attention to the vulnerabilities within some of the biggest corporations, who pose a risk to national security, as the regimes abroad may wish to compromise these for possible economic and terrorism acts of the future.
This attack is part of a broader strategic pattern the security services linked to U.S government are now undertaking, to bring about a culture of young, naive, vulnerable males into being anonymously trained for one-time only attacks, for a one issue cause.
Security services linked to UK government observed these contractors with links to U.S government over two weeks ago via IRC forums, while monitoring a seperate group of individuals.
I'm working closely with my partners in the UK to identify who trained up the hackers and to bring these security contract workers to justice.
The Sony PlayStation network compromise will not be the last in a series of planned attacks, unless these people are eliminated from the equation.
Security services linked to UK government are taking active measures to publicly broadcast what is going on, as a preventive measure.
It has come to my attention that security services linked to U.S government are planning to train up further young, naive, vulnerable males in the future with grudges against major UK companies.
It is within the interest of security services linked to UK government to expose and bring to the attention of what actually happened with the Sony PlayStation network compromise, and what patterns are planned for the future.
The pattern is not for these attacks to end on U.S shores but to take these attacks to the UK.
Security services linked to UK government are taking steps to thwart the plot by U.S government contractors, as we don't wish for them to meddle in UK internal security affairs.
UK government have their own cybersecurity strategies and we wish for U.S to respect this.