Sony PlayStation Network back up after hack

It’s not been an easy couple of weeks for Sony but they seem to be working some things out. The latest denial of service attack by the Lizard Squad knocked out the PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live three days ago. Sony seems to have gotten its bearings back and PSN is up and running for all its consoles. The company warns of some “intermittency” still but there shouldn’t be any major downtime happening soon.

Source: PlayStation Blog + PlayStation Support | Via: Engadget

Update on Monday, December 29, 2014 at 9:52AM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Looks like access to the service is still spotty. Stay tuned.

Breaking News: Sony pulls gaming service after 24.6 million more user accounts are stolen

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Sony has been forced to cut off its Sony Online Entertainment service after another 24.6 million user accounts have been compromised by hackers Sony said in a press release. This is the second such instance of customer data being accessed on Sony online gaming and entertainment services and brings the total number of compromised user accounts breached to 100 million, which is unprecedented.

The first attack which took place  April 20th, forcing Sony to pull the plug on its PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming services after 77 million user accounts were exposed. These services have not gone back online.

The attack on Sony's online services, which have critical user information such as names, addresses and passwords has earned the ire of customers and observers who are aware that this information can be used by hackers to access other services, commit fraud and ultimately lead to identity theft. 12,700 non-U.S. credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) were also taken.

Hit the jump is Sony's recent press release on the matter.

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