The Play Station Network will be back up in few days according to Sony
It seems that Play Station owners will not have to wait as long as was expected earlier, to have their beloved Play Station Network back up and operational after the recent attack by an unidentified group of hackers.
According to Patrick Seybold, who is Sony Computer Entertainment America’s director of corporate communications and social media, the PSN would be back up sooner than expected, though he did not specify an exact date.
“I know you all want to know exactly when the services will be restored. At this time, I can’t give you an exact date, as it will likely be at least a few more days,” said Seybold.
Seybold went on to apologize for the inconvenience caused and appreciated the patience shown by Play Station users as Sony worked to get the PSN running again.
It has been more than three weeks since the PSN was breached by hackers, resulting in Sony suspending the service as they looked to identify the culprits and work out what information had been stolen.
Early reports had suggested that it was the work of the group ‘anonymous’, that had previously hacked the Network and left a ‘We Are Legion’ message in one of the servers.
No information had been stolen at that time, yet, the more recent attack seems to be more serious as Sony reported that over 77 million PSN users may have had their personal, as well as credit card and bank account details stolen.
Anonymous denied the allegations, claiming they had nothing to do with the attack, and the third party specialists hired by Sony to investigate the breach of security have also not been able to identify the person(s) responsible.
The recent news of a third attack on the PSN had been rubbished by Seybold earlier when he stated that the report held no accuracy and dismissed as just another rumour.
Howard Stringer, Sony’s CEO, assured the public that Sony was doing all it could to get to the bottom of the embarrassing saga.
“Let me assure you that the resources of this company have been focused on investigating the entire nature and impact of the cyber-attack we’ve all experienced and on fixing it. We are absolutely dedicated to restoring full and safe service as soon as possible,”
said Stringer.
Stringer went on to explain that PSN users would be rewarded for their patience in much the same way as Seybold did, with rumours emerging that every PSN user would be given a 30 passes to PSN’s premium account package the Play Station Plus, along with a
couple of free downloads from the Play Station Store, though Sony is yet to confirm or deny the reports.
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