“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 …
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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 …
PlayStation Network Still Offline: Sony ‘Unaware of the Extent of the Attack’
Sony had believed that its PlayStation Network service would have been restored by now but things have been delayed once again.
A company blog post finds Sony saying, “We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly …
Reports Say Another Security Attack Is Planned Against Sony
According to a report by CNET, Sony may have to brace itself for another hack this coming weekend. Yes, another one.
An observer of the IRC channel used by hackers says that the third major attack is planned for Sony’s website, as punishment for the way Sony has handled the PlayStation network breach. The company only alerted …
Security Expert: Sony’s Network Was ‘Unpatched and Had No Firewall Installed’
Sony, Sony, Sony. This ought to add yet another level to the PR nightmare that’s become the PlayStation Network breach.
In a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing yesterday, Gene Spafford, a professor at Purdue University and executive director of the school’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and …
Anonymous to Sony: We Don’t Condone Credit Card Theft
Yesterday Sony told a U.S. House of Representatives Committee that the culprits behind the PlayStation Network outages were none other than hacker collective Anonymous, the group responsible for the takedowns of websites like Visa.com and Westboro Baptist Church late last year. But the puzzling saga took another sharp turn this morning …
Who’s Cleaning Up the PSN Debacle for Sony?
Remember that scene in Pulp Fiction where Harvey Keitel’s character — the nicely-named Winston Wolf — comes in to help assassins Jules and Vincent tidy up an especially messy murder? “How come I’m on brain duty?!”
Well, it looks like Sony has called in the equivalent of three Winston Wolfs to begin cleaning up the security mess that …
Sony to Government: PSN Attackers Signed File ‘Anonymous’
Sony just put up its response to the U.S. House of Representatives about the PlayStation Network debacle, and it looks like we’ve seen our first bit of finger-pointing.
The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing today in Washington, D.C. on …
From Worse to Awful: Sony Admits Over 23,000 Credit Cards, Bank Accounts Exposed
Oops, they did it again, or at least did a whole lot more than Sony thought until yesterday, shortly before Japan news site Nikkei claimed a second data breach at Sony HQ involved the theft of nearly 13,000 credit card numbers. Hide your wallets, folks.
I knew something was up when Sony Online Entertainment (EverQuest, DC Universe …
Sony Says ‘No Truth’ to PSN Credit Card List Rumors
“No it didn’t” neatly sums up Sony’s reaction to late-last-week rumors, led by various security firms, that the massive PlayStation Network fumble included customer credit card numbers.
In a PlayStation blog “network security” update this afternoon, Sony Computer Entertainment America spokesperson Patrick Seybold echoed Sony …
Sony PlayStation President Apologizes for PSN Outage, Promises Service Back This Week
The first big step of Sony winning back the goodwill of consumers and repairing its reputation took place this weekend, when Kaz Hirai and other Sony execs took to the stage for a press conference. Hirai, an Executive Vice President who’s the no. 2 man at the Japanese tech giant, made the first executive acknowledgement of the fiasco …