Play Station 3 was hacked for the first time! Hurry to enjoy more features!

For the first time in three years of its existence the popular video game console Sony PlayStation 3 was hacked by the same hacker who was the first to successfully jailbreak the iPhone.

The hack by 20-year-old George Hotz, aka geohot, significantly expands the functionality of the box by allowing it to run unrestricted versions of Linux and a wide range of games that are currently forbidden. The hardware and software designer told it took him five weeks to develop the hack using a combination of modifications to the console's hardware and software.

"Basically, I used hardware to open a small hole and then used software to make the hole the size of the system to get full read/write access," he said in an interview. "Right now, although the system is broken, I have great power. I can make they system do whatever I want."

Geohot says he won’t provide details to prevent Sony from introducing changes that would stymie the modifications. But a blog post announcing the accomplishment makes clear the hack gives users unprecedented control over their systems.

"I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor," geohot wrote. "In other words, I have hacked the PS3."