It started on a quiet Wednesday night, with PlayStation gamers finding their Network unresponsive to their login attempts, and now continues well into its third day. Sony has now finally shed some light at the problems it’s been having with PSN and, to nobody’s surprise, the culprit for its troubles has been identified as “an external intrusion.” The present downtime for PSN is the second of its kind this month, with the Anonymous group of online crusaders claiming responsibility for the primary. Sony now intends to maintain both PSN and its Qriocity music streaming service offline until it could actually pinpoint the vulnerability that has been exploited and put a stop to it. Skip past the break for the corporate’s full statement.
[Thanks, Christian]
An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. So one can conduct a radical investigation and to make sure the graceful and secure operation of our network services going forward, we turned off PlayStation Network & Qriocity services at the evening of Wednesday, April 20th. Providing quality entertainment services to our customers and partners is our utmost priority. We’re doing all we will be able to to unravel this example quickly, and we all over again thanks on your patience. We are able to continue to update you promptly as we’ve additional info to share
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