PSN is up .......in Japan....they're restoring it region by region
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PSN is up .......in Japan....they're restoring it region by region
hahahahahahahahahaha
http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article...ccounts_hacked
Published - May 02 2011 06:13PM CST
NEW YORK — Sony Corp. said Monday that hackers may have taken personal information from an additional 24.6 million user accounts after a review of the recent PlayStation Network breach found an intrusion at a division that makes multiplayer online games.
The data breach comes on top of the 77 million PlayStation accounts it has already said were jeopardized by a malicious intrusion.
The latest incident occurred April 16 and 17 _ earlier than the PlayStation break-in, which occurred from April 17 to 19, Sony said.
About 23,400 financial records from an outdated 2007 database involving people outside the U.S. may have been stolen in the newly discovered breach, including 10,700 direct debit records of customers in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, it said.
The outdated information contained credit card numbers, debit card numbers and expiration dates, but not the 3-digit security code on the back of credit cards. The direct debit records included bank account numbers, customer names, account names and customer addresses.
Company spokeswoman Taina Rodriguez said Sony had no evidence the information taken from Sony Online Entertainment, or SOE, was used illicitly for financial gain.
"We had previously believed that SOE customer data had not been obtained in the cyber-attacks on the company, but on May 1 we concluded that SOE account information may have been stolen and we are notifying you as soon as possible," Sony said in a message to customers.
Sony said that it shut service Monday morning to Sony Online Entertainment games, which are available on personal computers, Facebook and the PlayStation 3 console. Its most popular games include "EverQuest," "Free Realms" and "DC Universe Online."
The company said it will grant players 30 days of additional time on their subscriptions, along with one day for each day the system is down. It is also creating a "make good" plan for its multiplayer online games.
On Sunday, Sony executives bowed in apology and said they would beef up security measures after an earlier breach caused it to shut down its PlayStation network on April 20. The company is working with the FBI and other authorities to investigate what it called "a criminal cyber attack" on Sony's data center in San Diego, Calif.
The company said it would offer "welcome back" freebies such as complimentary downloads and 30 days of free service to PlayStation customers around the world to show remorse and appreciation.
PlayStation spokesman Patrick Seybold, in a blog post Monday, denied a report that said a group tried to sell millions of credit card numbers back to Sony.
He also said that while user passwords had not been encrypted, they were transformed using a simpler function called a hash that did not leave them exposed as clear text.
Even More Muwahahahahaha
http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/...es-taken-down/
UPDATE: Sony Online Entertainment Services Taken Down
Sony's MMO division reveals that today's shutdown is related to an outside intrusion that grabbed thousands of (potentially expired) credit card details from outside the US.
- by Pete Davison
- May 02, 2011 15:50 PM PT
http://cdn1.gamepro.com/article_img/...B6A435EFFE1D3A
UPDATE: As expected, an official statement from SOE has been released, and the company reveals that they had almost 13,000 non-US credit card numbers taken from a database that was from 2007, supposedly making much of the card information expired. However, the database also contained 10,700 direct debit records which contained bank account info of customers in Germany, Austria, Spain and the Netherlands.
The statement asserted that there was "no evidence" that SOE's central credit card database was compromised, it being on a "completely separate and secured" part of their network. The rest of the statement mirrors the identity-protection advisories given by Sony Computer Entertainment last week.
Original Story:
Sony Online Entertainment's services, also known as Station.com, have been taken down temporarily. The official site states that "in the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems, we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately."
This is something of an about-face from the company's announcement last week that they believed no personal information had been compromised. The intrusion into SOE's systems came at the same time as the PSN security breach, but SOE representatives believed that Station.com was separate enough from PSN for subscribers' personal information to remain safe. The only game with a direct link between the two services is the PS3 version of DC Universe Online, which uses the PSN wallet to fund subscription fees.
SOE says we can expect an update on the situation later today.
Is PSN working today?
idk
Fuck
''Looks like they're just about on the right track to getting that down because reportedly, Japan's service is already back up.''
This was earlier today.
US & EU are still down though.
ye its still down in NA, should be up this week sometime
Pawn shops is caking off lovely wit them ps3's
PSN is apparently back up tonight in NA or tomorrow morning
bastards. I'm switching to xbox now fuck this
n e thing yet?
XBOX sales r RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISING
shits down still, my guess is it wont be up until next week. if it is then ill be damned
plus the compensation package is worthless really, unless the free downloads are worth while. or if any one uses the Music Premium shit
The worst thing about this shit is that, sony have poorly handled the situation by leaving playstation players clueless on what is actually happening. A update every now and then is poor when so much shit is going down with credit cards, and the fact that people still can't go on psn. They need to clean this shit up quickly.