The good news is that after more than a week of being offline, Sony has confirmed that it will be bringing its PSN service back online within a week after it was hacked open just before Easter. But given the details that were stolen by the hackers, has Sony done enough? Gizmodo takes on Kotaku to discover whether or not the Japanese giant has stepped up to the challenge of rectifying the flaws that led to the security breach.
Not that Geohot, famed PS3 hacker who settled with Sony after they went after him with all their legal might, is laughing at those affected by the PSN hacking. Blogging that he feels sorry anyone affected, he also added that he most definitely isn’t behind the hacking:
Within a week?! WITHIN A WEEK?! It’s already been over a week! Sony’s still hard at work attempting to restore operations after the security breach, and is moving the PSN network infrastructure and data centre “to a new, more secure location”.
Sony’s Playstation Network has been down for the past six days, and the company is unsure when it will go back online. Not only that, but a whole heap of users personal data has been compromised in the hack that sent the service offline. While we wait for Sony to bring online back to Playstation gamers around the world, here are five things you can do that might ease the withdrawal symptoms you’re currently experiencing.
Sony has not yet determined if the personal information or credit card numbers of users on the still-down PlayStation Network have been stolen, according to a Sony spokesman.
A hacker claims he’s infiltrated the PlayStation Network – their version of Xbox Live – and discovered that Sony not only collects a lot of data on everything that your PlayStation 3 is plugged into, they also do a terrible job with your credit card information.
