For those of you who aren’t aware, the PlayStation Network has been down for the past six days. Sony confirmed a few days ago that it’s a result of an “external intrusion”. But it’s not hackers from Anonymous retaliating over the prosecution of PS3 hackers this time, at least according to a spokesman for the group.
And that denial has a lot of people worried that whoever did bring the service down did so to gain access to credit card numbers and personal information belonging to PS3 owners.
Sony is conducting a “thorough investigation” according to a spokesman for the company. Still no word on when service will return, however.
well this shit keeps getting better and better.
The latest I heard is there was some program that allowed people to download anything from PSN for free, similar to the issue xbox live had recently.
so they shuttered the doors to the store/network till they could stop the thieving? sounds pretty counter productive to me…losing customers faith in their security etc for the sake of protecting sales that would likely never occur in the first place all the while preventing actual sales? I wanted to buy the new dreamcast pack but I’m likely not to now.
I hear they are completely redoing the entire system. New security and code in general… Could be great, possibly stop stupid things like sending credit card info over wifi unencrypted…
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/04/26/sony-shuts-down-playstation-network-indefinitely/
Indefinitely means its gonna be fixed tomorrow right?
I cant believe they dont have some way of purging user info from their network and putting it back up to at least allow people to game online while they come up with the new network…