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PlayStation Store To Be Back Online May 24th

, May 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

Despite a cheerful announcement last Saturday from Sony exec Kazuo Hirai that the PlayStation Network was back online, the network had another hiccup when reports found that its password resetting process had a security loophole. Sony has since resolved the issue, but has yet to confirm when the PlayStation Store will be back online. An intercepted memo that Sony sent to game developers and publishing partners now reveals that the PlayStation Store should return by next Tuesday, May 24th. Read The Full Story

Sony PlayStation Network suffers new hack

, May 18th 2011 Discuss [5]

Sony’s PlayStation Network woes continue, with the company’s own password reset system – a mandatory step in getting back online after Sony restored PSN services at the weekend – turning out to be a loophole for account theft. Resetting a password required just a PSN account email and the user’s date of birth, Nyleveia spotted: two elements that were among the data stolen in the original hack back in April.

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Sony’s Stringer Calls PlayStation Network Outage a “Hiccup”

, May 17th 2011 Discuss [6]

Sony’s CEO, Howard Stringer, did several interviews today, with Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He said that Sony is no closer to finding the culprit behind the attack, and is focusing on security challenges ahead. He told Bloomberg, “Nobody’s system is 100 percent secure. This is a hiccup in the road to a network future.” The PlayStation Network went down on April 20th, and only came back online on Saturday. Sony is still working to sort out issues with the Network and to regain its users’ trust.


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PlayStation Network Restoration Q&A

, May 16th 2011 Discuss [2]

The PlayStation Network went back online on Saturday, so PlayStation fans can again play video games online. Sony is also working on getting the password reset problem sorted. But the service is far from being completely restored. The PlayStation Store, for example, is still behind on updates. Full information on the Welcome Back Package, and the ID theft protection Sony is offering is still to come also. Today, Sony published a new Q&A on its official PlayStation blog answering some questions and promising answers to others “soon”.

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PSN password reset surge triggers further downtime

, May 16th 2011 Discuss [23]

The PlayStation Network may be back online in many regions - North America and locations in Europe and the Middle East got the green light this weekend - but that still doesn't necessarily mean gamers can access the service. According to Sony, the huge number of people resetting their passwords has caused ISPs to throttle the confirmation emails automatically sent out. Read The Full Story

PlayStation Network service spreads: UK, Middle East, more

, May 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

It's not just North America getting some PlayStation Network and Qriocity service this weekend. Sony has taken to Twitter to confirm that phase one of the restoration is now rolling out in the UK, Ireland and the Middle East, as the company brings the reinforced servers back online. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review- Week 20 2011

, May 15th 2011 Discuss [1]

This week was the big Google conference and tons of news came out of this show, we had a very busy week here at SlashGear; with that let us get to it. Sony promised Monday that the PSN would be fully back and running by May 31. So far, Sony has offered very few details on the outage and what has been done to prevent it from happening again. Read The Full Story

Sony’s Next PSN Challenge: Restoring Reputation

, May 15th 2011 Discuss [166]

After weeks of downtime, governmental scrutiny and untold user fury, Sony has finally begun to restore PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming media services. It’s not been an easy journey, either: it wasn’t just server failure that took the PSN offline, but a security breach that saw millions of consumer records snatched out from under Sony’s nose. With only the slightest publicly-released information to go on, systems experts have looked on in horror as Sony took a forced deep-dive through server strata, uncovering the flaws – in its data centers and its ego – that allowed the hack to take place. Still, Sony may find that restoring the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services were the easy part – rebuilding its ailing reputation may be far trickier.

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PlayStation Network is back online [Video]

, May 15th 2011 Discuss [23]

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation Network is coming back online, with a mandatory system software update (v3.61) for PS3 consoles before they can rejoin the PSN. The phased update has now spread across North American and Europe, though there may be some delay as servers repopulate. Plus, Sony’s Kazuo Hirai has shared a video message about the restoration, which you can see after the cut.

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Leaked Letter from Sony Reveals More Details About PlayStation Network Hack

, May 13th 2011 Discuss [24]

We have had a lot of news over the past 23 days about the hack and closure of Sony’s PlayStation Network, but there are still a lot of questions over what exactly happened. Sony said in its letter to Congress that the attack was a “very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack”. And it certainly has set Sony back on its heels, with the network still down, and Sony still struggling to clean up the mess the hack has caused, and losing the trust of its users. Now, a letter sent from Sony to publishers of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity yesterday has been leaked, and we have a few more details about what happened.

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PSN outage bites as angry gamers defect to Xbox

, May 13th 2011 Discuss [71]

Gamers are not generally a patient lot, and they are unforgiving when it comes to errors and issues with a game. When an outage like the PSN being down for so long in the wake of the attacks on Sony servers drags on and no online games can be played patients is as thin as the emperor's new clothes. Sony has apologized for the outage and has noted that it will launch PSN service again as soon as possible, but gamers are apparently fed up with the wait. Read The Full Story

Sony: PlayStation Network offline for “at least a few more days”

, May 10th 2011 Discuss [14]

Sony has admitted that it will like be the end of the week before the PlayStation Network will be online again, further frustrating impatient gamers. According to Sony's Patrick Seybold, senior director of corporate comms. and social media, "it will likely be at least a few more days" before the systems are back, having been hacked in late April. Read The Full Story
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