Sony’s PSN has been out since last Wednesday night, and the company Friday confirmed that the outage was a result of an ‘external intrusion’ and that it had actually switched PSN and Quriocity services off while it dealt with the issue.
Though Sony said on Thursday that it would be ‘a day or two’ before PSN was back, that deadline has long since passed and, at around noon today, the company admitted that it really can’t say when PSN will be back. However, it seems the 70 million PSN users may have more to be worried about than a lack of access to online gameplay.
PC World quotes Satoshi Fukuoka, a spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo, as saying the company would inform users if it found that personal information or credit card numbers were compromised during the attack but whether or not they had been had yet to be determined.
Sony has yet to provide any official information on the breach; however, an SCEE source told PlayStation Universe that PSN suffered at the hands of a LOIC attack, which damaged the server, as well as a concentrated attack on the PlayStation servers holding account information. PSU's source says admin dev accounts were also breached and that Sony "[is] currently in the process of restoring backups to new servers with new admin dev accounts."
The most recent update on the status of PSN arrived at about 11:20 a.m. ET and reads as follows:
I know you are waiting for additional information on when PlayStation Network and Qriocity services will be online. Unfortunately, I don’t have an update or timeframe to share at this point in time.
As we previously noted, this is a time intensive process and we’re working to get them back online quickly. We’ll keep you updated with information as it becomes available. We once again thank you for your patience.
-- Patrick Seybold, Senior Director of Corporate Communications and Social Media
Or if these guys steal your credit card info, they get what you pay for
"Sony Doesn't Yet Know if Credit Card Info is Safe"
That's just lame, SONY.
Pathetic.
...right.
Didn't Xbox Live users get their accounts account hacked with credit card info and cerdits stolen also a few years back? Wouldn't you have wanted MS to have taken a strict line on security. It seems to me that Sony are taking no risks here and are to be commended.
Someone probably socialed their way in through an employee and ran amok.
Recent layoffs couldn't possibly be related.
I was using YellowDog Linux prior to the removal of OtherOS. I miss it, my HDMI cable, and a large desktop that worked great. I never hacked my machine.
I think to myself repeatedly, that if Sony had done "the right thing" for people who purchased their product, this kind of thing might not be happening.
This is my last Sony console... I have already recommended people I work with AVOID SONY (nurses, anesthesiologists, etc, that like to game, and they have the money to do it).
I have had 6 different families in my neighborhood ask me to help them with putting a decent gaming console in their living room. People with money to spend...
Three got a PC. Two got XBOX360. One got a WII.
Nobody bought a PS3, after is showed what has been happening after the last year.
SCEA:
I hope someone from Sony (with a brain and decision making power reads this). You had SIX FAMILIES that would have bought a PS3 had I told them to. I made sure NONE of them did, and they are happy.
Are you? NO? Really?
...Good!!
I legally own my games. I do my best to make anyone I talk to NOT buy anything with Sony's name on it. I am the anti-customer you didn't want. Congratulations!
Fact that the service issue with PSN has tons to do with some off~shoot crusade about "omgz we're defending our fellow hackers" is pretty moronic. I'd put my money on one likely scenario: had homebrewing been very minimal with pirating games, there probably wouldn't have been a peep from anyone.
And plz don't give the fkn BS about "omgz sony is an evil evil company that controls its product". Hey pal unless you've been living under a rock I can change out Sony with Apple when it comes to a company managing its product. A Wii is as useless as a console and was a fad. Xbox 360 has, omgz, paying multi~player. Yea its a good console but I don't want to play for Xbox live, really why the fk do I want to?
If this is the outcome of every time makes a little crusade about "we're defending hackers" then how about stopping the pirating of games. I have 4 friends with Nintendo DS's. All of them homebrewed it and have hundreds of pirated games. I may buy my sh*t but yea, 1 person out of 4 buying? I can see how that works and I'm pretty damn sure for every single homebrew that there was on the PS3 there was at least 1 person pirating or adding mods to just fkn cheat a fps shooter.
PS: Sony is terrible lol.