An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. In order to conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward, we turned off PlayStation Network & Qriocity services on the evening of Wednesday, April 20th. Providing quality entertainment services to our customers and partners is our utmost priority. We are doing all we can to resolve this situation quickly, and we once again thank you for your patience. We will continue to update you promptly as we have additional information to share.
Posted on 23 April by James Gallagher – Blog Manager, SCEE














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Posted on 23 April, 2011 at 7:29 pm by Skydancerx
First at all: Its good that they Update us with some News, after many Users moaning. But still no Information about leaked User Data. Thats a big problem!
PSN is free and for a free Service its really good.
It is a shame for a Company like Sony that their Network Admins and Technicans not able to fix the Problem. It´s Easter Weekend and many people want wo Play Online AND Buy Games. Sony is loosing Money on this.
I think it´s something wrong with the Steam integration, thats the Real problem.
I bet the Service is down until Tuesday. World Press is laughing about Sony.
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Posted on 23 April, 2011 at 8:14 pm by golden618217
Has this happened before?
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Posted on 23 April, 2011 at 8:24 pm by Salty500
i hope they find out who did this and string them up by the short and curlys
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Posted on 23 April, 2011 at 9:23 pm by SlickShoes
Some sort of ETA is what is needed next from Sony, as well as letting us know our payment and address data are safe!
I just want my MLB.tv, Lovefilm and SOCOM Online back! I only got a couple of hours on SOOCOM before the PSN died.
Please let us know if your data is secure and a rough ETA!
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Posted on 24 April, 2011 at 12:33 am by Ginnungagap-X
I’ll say it again, more transparency and banning online DRM, Sony! Especially the last bit, I still have a NES I use and when you eventually switch off the PSN for good some of my content protected by such DRM will become useless. Damn right I will sue for a refund, so act while it’s affecting customers and you still have some borrowed time.
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Posted on 24 April, 2011 at 12:53 am by Izorpo
paypal is far from safe – phishing emails for a start even altering the external headers to fool people
by the way Amazon, Play, Shopto.net, Game, Gamestation, Ebay all store your credit card information to name just a few and at Ebay sellers can block buyers/ bidders who don’t register a credit card, – paypal also stores your credit card or bank account details – as does xbox – and you can’t remove your credit card details from xbox as long as your gold account is active.
So you want to criticize people who use a credit card to make their psn purchases – well I don’t have to go out and spend 20 quid on a psn card to buy a £7 game while Sony collects interest on the funds in the wallet, I can just pay the £7 – the only psn account I ever leave funds in the wallet is my american one – but hey at least the interest Sony collects off of me is going to SCEA which offers more than the SCEE.
So the next time you want to chastise people who use their credit cards to make purchases off of psn – just remember the money you leave in your wallet – the interest goes to SCEE and by their pricing and treatment of the European customers just think who is the bigger mug
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Posted on 24 April, 2011 at 1:04 am by Labreya
@ Ginnungagap-X
It’s the contents creators that add the DRM, not Sony. If you had any sense, you’d know you’re targeting your whineing at the wrong people.
@ Izorpo
I always make sure there’s as close to 20 euros worth of content I want before I get a PSN card.
My paypal isn’t linked to my bank account. I send the money to the paypal account as an anonymous benefactor, and I only send enough to buy what I want, so my paypal generaly has around 10 cents when I don’t buy anything, so even if it is hacked, I hope the effort was worth it for them. I’m also not stupid enough to fall for phishing scams.
Also, I said people who LEAVE THEIR DETAILS ON THERE, not people who purchase and then delete their details.
If looking out for myself online makes me a mug, I’d rather be a mug than have my money/details stolen.
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Posted on 15 May, 2011 at 8:20 pm by OpTicPredator97
Thanks sony and playstation network im very glad i waited for you to get playstation network working again
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Posted on 20 May, 2011 at 2:51 pm by abudhbai1975
welcome back PS3 THE BEST
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