UPDATE: Sony’s deadline from last Sunday of “within one week” has been delayed. Read about it direct from Sony here. Every day brings new Playstation Network news, so here’s your latest batch. Sony President Howard Stringer has released an official, open apology to all users for the outages. The letter reiterates a lot of thoroughly […]
Sony has stated that a file left on the hacked Playstation Network servers references Anonymous, a group of hackers that previously launched attacks on the service. Anonymous has explicitly denied responsibility for the recent breach in security, which effectively forced Sony to take the service offline. The Playstation Network outage entered its third week today. […]
Sony’s Tokyo press conference on the Playstation Network outage (supposedly a “known vunerability” that was not expressed to managers at the affected data center) is just wrapping up. While little new information was given, Sony Corp’s Executive Deputy President Kazuo Hirai did detail a compensation program to thank users for their patience. All members of […]
UPDATE 1: Sony has released another statement on the matter, detailing how the system is being rebuilt from the ground up, you can read it here! UPDATE 2: A financial estimate from the Ponemon Institute values the damage of the breach, should user data confirmed to have been lost, at $24 billion. Read the Forbes […]