News PlayStation Network outage to last indefinitely

Ha amazing! I've seen my friends 16 yo brother do something similar when his patents canceled his xbl subscription because he was about to do his GCSEs he ran away, returned home with a fist full of 48hour xbl trails from games his friends had bought.

slightly more related though, I do hope it wasn't anon (even though its looking likely). id like to think its a noble act for the user base rather than trying to rip people off.

'I Fight For the Users' sorry had to be done..

 

Bloody hell you must do, you last posted over 5 years ago.

 

This is how I feel as well.
I've been extolling the evils of Sony since the rootkit fiasco to everyone I know. And yet, even friends and family who normally take my tech advice as law, they continue buying Sony products, even though I explain to them that continued purchasing only encourages them that such activities are accepted. But they dont care, because they mistakenly still believe Sony makes good stuff like they once did in the 80's-90's. And so they deserve it as much as Sony; and for those who were not aware of Sony's misdeeds, perhaps more of them will be made aware after this incident and will not purchase Sony in the future.

I understand, few corporations are "good", and many made mistakes. However, Sony has never admitted any wrongdoing and has thumbed their nose when confronted. THIS is why they deserve it, because they do things willfully and intentionally. But if you are aware of their misdeeds, and their willingness to give customers the finger, and there are plenty of viable alternative products... then you get what you deserve if you still continue to support that company.

 

Man if this happened to steam I would cry like a little girl. I've really invested much too much in that platform.

 

Rebuild the entire system? Really?

Considering the size of the PSN network one would think that the issue would be isolated and fixed by now. I mean its a multi-billion dollar company... Surely they have more than one Japanese engineer/programmer...

I digress...

Shame on you Sony for having a network running on a 486 computer with a dialup modem in your moms basement.... seriously

 

Seeing as I know what the real problem is (developer access to psn via rebug) rebuilding the system is probably the only way they'll get anything up again.

 

have your cc numbers changed

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/update_personal_data_of_70_million_sony_customers.php

anon says sony is incompetent

http://www.anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=848

 

As previously mentioned, Anon had called off Operation Sony, as they recognized it would do more harm to Sony's customers than Sony. Not to say it wasn't some neckbeard thinking maybe calling it off was a bad idea (that being the nature of Anonymous and all.) And, really, if some Anon did this, I think we'd all be wise to be piss-scared of the power of Anon now - think about it - they took took down PSN and kept it down for a week at least, and Sony doesn't know (or won't admit) when it will be back up due to the massive breach. Now that's some 1337 H4><0r||\|g right there

But no, this was a combination of some haxoring and Sony realizing they screwed the pooch when they wired up the network. Now that data has been compromised in a spectacular fashion, some manager is jumping on the grenade to keep the network down, trying to ensure they don't further embarrass themselves a week after they bring it back online, only to be taken down again. Not that that manager will be rewarded, naturally. Since he isn't 'contributing to shareholder value' in a way immediately obvious in the next five minutes, he'll be lucky if he doesn't get fired, once he's taken all the bullets and the system is back up.

If I had my way, there wouldn't be 75M people to get hosed out of playing on PSN, as every customer would have jumped ship after the rootkit fiasco years back. Or the payola scheme. Or the GeoHot case. Jebus, people, stop giving Sony your money!

 

That is actually incredibly scary. And mostly because I've been doing security wrong.

 

I hope that is the case. I'm love Sony products, and other then mobile phones and their great but overpriced TV's I rate their tech very highly.

But I want Sony to be blumbering idiots in this case, I hope it was just shear incompetence and complacency that lead to this turn of events. Because if it was not, the Steam servers could be next. Imagine that if you were unlucky enough not to have your details stored on your PC at the time (no offline mode for you!)

Sony are no doubt well aware of the massive damage every hour of PSN being offline is doing, so to be resorting to taking it down without even a clue as to how long they will be down is worrying. Also, it almost goes without saying that things are normally WORSE then a big company will admit, and they have already pained a really bleak picture of the events.

Gonna love the MS statement saying they don't take any joy in this, whist in the same breath reminding everyone of the free gold member ship weekend. I bet there is a lot of high fiving going on at MS right now (as well as rechecking their own security, mind).

BTW, if you just brought Portal 2 and didn't get chance to redeem your free PC version yet either, my thoughts are with you.

 

This is getting tedious now not been able to play online, but what is worse, is I feel a lack of communication.

I am sure I had to put my email address into sign up to PSN, so why are Sony relying on us to find a page buried on their site.

They should be sending communication out like this via email, or at very least a link to their site with the news on it

 

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/26/update-on-playstation-network-and-qriocity/

and expect to restore some services within a week
Some services within a week ! wow whoever did break into their network did a really good job they had access to all user information apart from credit card numbers (hopefully) and knocked the service on it arse for what looks like 2 weeks

 

Given they initially thought the whole of PSN and Qriocity (which I was about to sign up for...) would be restored by the weekend, I'd take any timeframe they specify with a huge dollop of salt.

 

It would have been in the terms and conditions that they can do that. It's quite simple if you don't like the T&C don't buy it.

 

+1

 

Can somebody clear something up for me? Was it taken down by a attack on the servers or was its because SONY are protecting their asses?

In my opinion if its the latter then if it wasn't a free service they wouldn't have just pulled the plug like they did.

 

it was a breach and data was taken

 

The servers were taken down (and damaged) by the attack, data was taken, Sony are keeping the servers offline while they rebuild the servers (and fix the security hole that was exploited in the first place).

 

Greetings!

This.

Hackers broke PSN security, parasites just took whatever they could from the PSN store.
Sonys reputation gets even more tarnished and legitimate players dont get the service they expect. The parasites are laughing.

 

It's everyones personal data being stolen that would concern me, not whether you can play online. Get your prioritys straight lol.