sony

We heard today that the PlayStation network will return online today - I'm not sure we will believe them until it happens as they appear to be struggling. On the 20th of April 2011 we were informed by Playstation that some areas of the Network were down.  Since then its gone from bad to worse, with very inadequate information from Playstation. The nightmare unfolds before our eyes. Following many rumours we soon found out that the PlayStation network had in fact been attacked by hackers and millions of  gamer's personal information including credit card details may have been compromised. 26/4/11 - Sony shared that they had infact had an unauthorised intrusion into the network, and that some personal information including, names, addresses emails but that there was no evidence of that credit card information was stolen. 30/4/11- PlayStation announce that some service will be available this week - following a criminal cyber-attack on the company's data centre on this press release at Playstation blog. Playstation advised people to change their passwords and to keep a sharp eye on their bank statements, even though I also read that PlayStation said that credit [...]