As one of the largest digital distribution platforms in the world, the PlayStation Store allows millions of users to download thousands of games, items and DLC, as well as movies and TV shows. Unfortunately, due to the network’s recent hack, the store has been inaccessible for the past few weeks, something that may be set [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Security Breach’
PlayStation Store Aiming To Return Next Tuesday
Thursday, May 19th, 2011Security Expert Believes PSN Should Remain Offline
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011The PSN has been up for a few days now, in most of the world. However, in Japan, the country where Sony calls home, the network has yet to be restored due to governmental blocks in place before it can be separately verified that the new infrastructure is secure. Now at least one security expert [...]
PSN Restoration Halted in Japan as Government Demands Answers
Monday, May 16th, 2011In Japan, Sony will not be allowed to start this healing process until it provides further information on what measures the company has taken since the hacking incident.
SOE’s “Welcome Back” Package Detailed, Includes Lots of Freebies
Sunday, May 15th, 2011Sony‘s restoration of their PlayStation Network, Qriocity and other online services are now in full swing, with the network coming back online in chunks around the globe. Sony Online Entertainment, the group behind many MMOs including DC Universe Online and Free Realms, had stated earlier they were creating a “make good” plan for subscribers to [...]
PSN Return Begins, Rolling Out Across The World
Saturday, May 14th, 2011It’s alive!
Brink Developer Speaks Out on PSN Outage
Friday, May 13th, 2011With a heavy focus on online, FPS Brink released at a rather inopportune time, with the PlayStation Network down. Game Director Paul Wedgwood has spoken about how the PlayStation Network outage is affecting themselves as developers, and also talks about people venting their frustrations at Sony.
PSN Return To Take “At Least a Few More Days”
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011After missing their return deadline of last week, Sony has been rather quiet about the PlayStation Network’s status, simply blaming the hack of Sony Online Entertainment for the delay. Patrick Seybold has now commented on when the Network will return – but still refrained from giving a specific date.
Merchants Opening Up Shop in Light of PSN Catastrophe
Monday, May 9th, 2011The PSN security breach that resulted in the network’s ongoing downtime is a horrible situation for not just Sony, economically and publicly, but for consumers, developers, and financial institutions (credit card companies, banks, etc.) as well. A foreseeable trend for any event, especially for unfortunate events such as these, is that there are always those [...]
Full PSN Services Could Take Until May 31st To Return
Monday, May 9th, 2011The PlayStation Network has already been down for several weeks, but with Sony missing their targeted return of last week due to the discovery of an attack on Sony Online Entertainment, the company has been rather quiet on when exactly everything would be back to normal. Unfortunately, it now seems like it may take until [...]
Sony To Offer Free Identity Theft Protection in the United States, $1 Million Insurance
Saturday, May 7th, 2011With the PlayStation Network hacked, users personal data was stolen – possibly including credit card info – making many gamers lose faith in the service. To help restore confidence in the system and tempt gamers to return to the network, Sony announced a “Welcome Back” package that will include free games. Additionally, the company will [...]
Howard Stringer Addresses PSN Breach, Publicly Apologizes
Saturday, May 7th, 2011After the PlayStation Network was taken offline for due to a cyber-attack, Sony faced a crisis – not only was the network down (and still is), but the company began to come under flak for not informing customers about their data loss until several days after it was lost. Hoping to help restore consumer faith [...]
PlayStation Network: Safer Than Ever
Thursday, May 5th, 2011We analyze how the PlayStation Network is now safer than ever before.
PSN Still On Track for This Week
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Sony has said that the PlayStation Network would resume this week, but unfortunately missed the original estimate of this past Tuesday, May 3rd. While Sony did add the stipulation, that they’d do so only if they were confident the PlayStation Network was “secure”, users are still frustrated that another update hasn’t been provided.
Anonymous Could Face Severe Backlash From PSN Users
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Anonymous has been a thorn in Sony’s side for about a month now. In Sony‘s recent response to the U.S. House of Representatives (specifically, to a letter recently addressed to them), it was revealed that Sony discovered on their Sony Online Entertainment servers a file named “Anonymous” that contained the text “We are Legion” inside. [...]
Congressional Hearing Regarding Data Security Today – Have Sony’s Answers Sufficed?
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011Sony has been in some real hot water lately, ever since it was let out that not only was the PlayStation Network breached, but that account information for over 77 million accounts had been compromised. Governments have gotten involved, including statements from Japanese Senator Yukio Edano, and now the United States Congress. A hearing is [...]
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