In the wake of an ongoing attack on the PlayStation Network, Sony has announced that they are completely rebuilding the system in order to better prevent future attacks and subsequently, future outages.
The Network was turned off on Wednesday, April 20th and has been out since that time. This means that all PSN functionality is essentially unavailable until further notice, including Netflix (at least for a number of users), online play in games, and much more.
The attacks are believed to be the work of Anonymous in retaliation against Sony for taking George Hotz to court over his earlier "hacking" of the PlayStation 3 authorization security codes. This code discovery made it possible for homebrew titles and pirated titles to be run on any PlayStation 3 with relative ease.
Anonymous, at least the leaders of the group, have however stated that they are not responsible for the latest outages on the Network.
We sincerely regret that PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been suspended, and we are working around the clock to bring them both back online. Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to further strengthen our network infrastructure. Though this task is time-consuming, we decided it was worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security.
We thank you for your patience to date and ask for a little more while we move towards completion of this project. We will continue to give you updates as they become available.
We thank you for your patience to date and ask for a little more while we move towards completion of this project. We will continue to give you updates as they become available.
The Network was turned off on Wednesday, April 20th and has been out since that time. This means that all PSN functionality is essentially unavailable until further notice, including Netflix (at least for a number of users), online play in games, and much more.
The attacks are believed to be the work of Anonymous in retaliation against Sony for taking George Hotz to court over his earlier "hacking" of the PlayStation 3 authorization security codes. This code discovery made it possible for homebrew titles and pirated titles to be run on any PlayStation 3 with relative ease.
Anonymous, at least the leaders of the group, have however stated that they are not responsible for the latest outages on the Network.