It has been a week and 2 days since i first realized that the entire PSN was down. It started off as a simple "encountered an eror" message seems making me think it was a temporary network issue. I then happened to see a single result online saying the network would be restored in a day or 2. This was last thursday.
I hoped that services would be back on Saturday given the Easter Weekend but i was so wrong. The number of online searches for the incident now had gone up with a sizeable number of theories about a possible hack but a stunning silence on Sony's part.
Then came the talk about groups like Anonymous being the cause. But it was not until the 26th that they spoke of an "external intrusion" causing the outage.
We were then told they were revamping their entire network security component and have hired the FBI to look into the fraud
A week later i now realize that i might be part of almost a 75 million strong community that might have had their accounts hacked into.
In all lawsuits are expected to cost Sony about 24 billion dollars. However they might still be saved by an American Supreme Court ruling which over-rides such suits if a written contract has been made dissallowing a consumer to take the company to court before using a service
Anyways words like George Hotz, Anonymous,FBI Cybercrimes,PSN outage, down,24 billion,lawsuit are all you would need to keep yourself updated on this Sony debacle on the www.
I hoped that services would be back on Saturday given the Easter Weekend but i was so wrong. The number of online searches for the incident now had gone up with a sizeable number of theories about a possible hack but a stunning silence on Sony's part.
Then came the talk about groups like Anonymous being the cause. But it was not until the 26th that they spoke of an "external intrusion" causing the outage.
We were then told they were revamping their entire network security component and have hired the FBI to look into the fraud
A week later i now realize that i might be part of almost a 75 million strong community that might have had their accounts hacked into.
In all lawsuits are expected to cost Sony about 24 billion dollars. However they might still be saved by an American Supreme Court ruling which over-rides such suits if a written contract has been made dissallowing a consumer to take the company to court before using a service
Anyways words like George Hotz, Anonymous,FBI Cybercrimes,PSN outage, down,24 billion,lawsuit are all you would need to keep yourself updated on this Sony debacle on the www.
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