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News ... And Here Come The Lawsuits
It's been merely twenty-four hours since Sony announced the potential breach of customer information via the PlayStation Network
Now news of the first lawsuit is trickling onto the Internet. We very much doubt it will be the last. Kristopher Johns of Birmingham, Alabama today filed a suit against the Japanese platform holder, citing failures of the...
News UK Fraud Organisation Calms PlayStation Network Identity Theft Concerns
An organisation familiar with fraud prevention in the UK, Financial Fraud Action UK (or FFA UK), has moved to calm gamers amidst a massive potential data breach of the PlayStation Network
The organisation has warned against an overreaction amongst consumers, offering Eurogamer the following statement: "FFA UK has been made aware that out of the...
Report Sony Urged To 'Invest A Lot' In Order To Rebuild Business
Having spent the morning re-securing our personal finances, our attention has slowly turned to the commercial fallout of Sony's breached security
As die-hard PlayStation fans we're obviously concerned about the near-term impact this story is going to have on Sony's platforms and games. Furthermore, as a website that deals solely in PlayStation...
News Hulu Plus Pledges One-Week Credit To Subscribers Using PlayStation Network
Just as soon as we get news of one good-will gesture, in comes another
Despite Hulu Plus working across a range of devices, the company has pledged compensation for all inconvenienced users that have been unable to stream content via the PS3 while the PlayStation Network is down. To compensate, one-week's worth of credit has been distributed to...
News Obviously There'll Be No PlayStation Store Update Today
If you were twiddling your thumbs anticipating a PlayStation Store update today, you are crazy
Absolutely crazy. Stuff happened and it's been all over the mainstream news. You should probably get up to date with that before you read this story. So yeah, no PlayStation Store update today. In fact, no PlayStation Store update in the near future...
News ICO To Investigate Sony Over PlayStation Network Personal Data Breach
Eurogamer's reporting that the Information Commissioner's Office will question Sony over the potential theft of millions of PlayStation Network users' data
The investigation will aim to discover whether Sony correctly protected users' data. Their findings could ultimately absolve or damn Sony depending on the practices the platform holder had in...
News Full Investigation The Cause Of Sony's Delayed PlayStation Network Theft Response
Probably the biggest backlash against the PlayStation Network data breach situation has been, "why didn't Sony come forward sooner?" Most people understand that this kind of attack is possible on any network, but are still disappointed by Sony's laboured response
The platform holder has followed up its initial statement on the PlayStation Blog...
We're writing this post with a heavy heart
Everything looked so good for PlayStation 3 going into 2011 but ever since the PlayStation 3 was hacked earlier in the year there's been a storm brewing behind scenes. It's culminated in a press release from Sony today confirming that hackers have managed to obtain sensitive data from the 75 million...
News Security Expert Predicts Big Patches When PlayStation Network Returns
Database security engineer expert Neil Martin has told NowGamer that he expects the PlayStation Network to be back online by the end of the week
Martin believes that Sony will be using the downtime to remove original server code and rebuild it "using new login keys for their admin side". Martin also believes that this will affect our...
News PSN Offline For A Fifth Day, Sony Working To Get 'Back Online Quickly'
Day five in the Big Brother house and Sony has no new information regarding the PSN outage that's kept PlayStation 3s offline over the Bank Holiday weekend
Despite forum users demanding updates across the web, Patrick Seybold's latest blog post hasn't done much to appease those requesting information. In his post, the communications gaffer outright...
News Sony 'Rebuilding' PlayStation Network Infrastructure, Working 'Around The Clock'
Day four in the Big Brother house and gamers are still being affected by PlayStation Network outages around the globe
Sony's communications manager, Patrick Seybold, has given a further update on the current PSN landscape over night. Writing on the PlayStation Blog, Seybold revealed that the platform holder are working "around the clock"...
News PlayStation Network Slayed By 'External Intrusion', Still No Fix In Sight
This is starting to become a nightmare now
We can deal with a couple of days offline (even if it does hurt our productivity — we have games to review), but the current issues Sony's experiencing with the PSN are starting to sound worse and worse. In its latest update on the PSN outage situation, Sony has cited an "external intrusion" as...
The PlayStation Network is down and people are pissed off
Like, proper pissed off. The one-hundred comments on our previous story should offer an indication of that. We've been monitoring the situation all day, but it seems like very little has changed. People are still experiencing difficulties logging onto the PlayStation Network, and it sounds...
News PlayStation Network Goes Down, Down, Down
Sony's confirmed that the PlayStation Network has gone down
Both SCEE and SCEA posted on the PlayStation Blog to update users on the service's status, citing "maintenance" on Twitter. No scheduled maintenance was planned, so we're assuming there's been a hiccup somewhere along the line that's brought everything down. Fingers crossed Sony...
