Judging from the evidence of last week’s Upfront presentations in which the broadcast networks revealed their fall 2011 schedules to advertisers and the public alike, television has finally realized how to deal with the threat of cord-cutting: Ignore it altogether. Instead of trying to fight the internet, broadcast television appears to …
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PlayStation Network Attacks May Cost Sony $170+ Million
In an earnings statement today, Sony estimated that the costs related to the recent PlayStation Network attacks and subsequent outages may total over $170 million as reported for Sony’s fiscal year ending in March 2012. That’s far higher than original analyst estimates in the tens of millions.
“Based on information currently available …
Sony Internet Provider Hacked, Financial Theft Occurs This Time
The Sony-owned “So-net” internet service provider has confirmed that its customer rewards website was recently breached, with the person or people responsible making off with “customers’ redeemable gift points worth about $1,225,” as first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
This event comes hot on the heels of Sony’s infamous …
Sony: PSN Password Issue Was Exploit, Not Hack
Sony’s weighed in on the question of whether its PlayStation Network online login was “hacked” yesterday.
Its verdict: not a hack, just an “exploit.”
“We temporarily took down the PSN and Qriocity password reset page,” said Sony spokesperson Patrick Seybold on the PlayStation blog, adding “Contrary to some reports, …
PlayStation Network Security Woes Continue with New Exploit
Follow-up: Sony: PSN Password Issue Was Exploit, Not Hack
Reports are starting to bubble up saying that Sony’s PlayStation Network may have been compromised yet again and, sure enough, I can’t even log into my own account on PlayStation.com: I get the above message.
MCVUK.com reports the following:
“The exploit allows people to
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Sony’s PlayStation Network Apology Package Won’t Please Everyone
This post originally appeared on Technologizer.
Poor Sony. In addition to rebuilding the PlayStation Network and enduring weeks of well-deserved criticism for letting hackers through its defenses, the company faced one more unenviable task: creating a “Welcome Back” package that will actually pacify customers.
The result is rather …
Japan Not Letting Sony Bring PlayStation Back Online in Its Home Country
The slow, agonizing restoration of PlayStation Network and Qriocity may have finally gotten underway this weekend but gamers in Sony’s country of origin are going to have to wait a bit longer before they can play online with each other.
The Japanese government isn’t giving the PlayStation people permission to boot servers back up …
The PlayStation Network’s Partly Back: Are We Happy Yet?
As you can see from that shot up top, the PlayStation Network, Qriocity, and Sony Online Entertainment are back, 50 fussy red and blue states are now united in scintillating neon green, and all’s right with the world.
Well, almost. The network’s back for some of you, but not all, and Sony’s restoration of service, which began on …
Playstation Network Goes Back Online at Long Last
PS3 owners, our long national nightmare is finally over. On Saturday May 14th, Sony exec Kaz Hirai delivered a video address that announced that Sony would be beginning a gradual roll-out of restoration for their Playstation Network and Qriocity services. (In a separate statement, the Sony Online Entertainment division also announced …
Leaked: Sony Letter to Publishers About PSN Outage
“Don’t call us, we’ll call you.” That’s the gist of a new, reportedly leaked letter from Sony to its publishing partners about the PlayStation Network outage, handed off by an anonymous source to Industry Gamers. If legit, it suggests Sony’s vague public tale of when and how the outage occurred doesn’t gain any insightful …
Report: PS3 Console Trade-Ins Rise Due to PSN Outage
Game trade-ins may be a games publisher and developer bugaboo, but it looks like they may also be a bellwether of customer discontent when it comes to Sony’s ongoing PlayStation Network outage.
Case in point, games-mag Edge says UK-based retailers are reporting a rise in PS3 console trade-ins for Xbox 360s. Edge’s source also says …
PlayStation Network Possibly Back in ‘A Few More Days’
Sony hasn’t updated its PlayStation blog since last Friday, May 6, though we’ve heard bits and pieces through official (as well as unofficial) channels suggesting the PSN as a whole could remain in the fetal position through May 31 (Sony now denies this, though in that sense that the PSN’s up date could be sooner, could be …