113w ago - Today SCEE Blog Manager
James Gallagher alongside Senior Director
Patrick Seybold via the
US Blog have posted update details on the PSN service outages, stating outside attacks may be a possible cause.
To quote: I know you are waiting for additional information on when PlayStation Network and Qriocity services will be online. Unfortunately, I don't have an update or timeframe to share at this point in time.
As we previously noted, this is a time intensive process and we're working to get them back online quickly. We'll keep you updated with information as it becomes available. We once again thank you for your patience.
We sincerely regret that PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been suspended, and we are working around the clock to bring them both back online.
Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to further strengthen our network infrastructure. Though this task is time-consuming, we decided it was worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security.
We thank you for your patience to date and ask for a little more while we move towards completion of this project. We will continue to give you updates as they become available.
An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. In order to conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward, we turned off PlayStation Network & Qriocity services on the evening of Wednesday, April 20th.
Providing quality entertainment services to our customers and partners is our utmost priority. We are doing all we can to resolve this situation quickly, and we once again thank you for your patience. We will continue to update you promptly as we have additional information to share.
As you are no doubt aware, the current emergency outage is continuing this afternoon and all Sony Online Network services remain unavailable.
Our support teams are investigating the cause of the problem, including the possibility of targeted behaviour by an outside party. If the reported Network problems are indeed caused by such acts, we would like to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service.
Our engineers are continuing to work to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customers' continued support.
While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we're able to get the service completely back up and running.
Thank you very much for your patience while we work to resolve this matter. Please stay tuned to this space for more details, and we'll update you again as soon as we can.
For further information, please refer to updates on PlayStation.com our
@PlayStationEU twitter feed.
Finally, for those wondering PSN error
80710A06 simply means "Issue with the system: The PlayStation 3 system encounted an issue" according to Sony's
PS3 error code checker.
Rebug Lite Edition (Install it)...
After all... who's fault is it that there is even on online database of credit card numbers and names acting as a carrot for internet nasties.
I do know that I made the choice of ps3 versus the 360 based on the "free" (rolled into the retail price) playstation network, and now I've got two pre/early teens here whining constantly, because it seems that sony is unable to effectively provide the service that sealed my (and who knows how many others) purchasing choices.
Now comes the big question folks, regardless of the details, sony owes the entire playstation network community a great debt.
How will they make good on this?
More importantly, how will they assure that this doesn't happen again?
When someone in anonymous says it wasn't them it means it wasn't talked about between 1000's of people in a IRC chat before hand. Which makes sense as it is just a limited number of people that need to be involved.
People that 'represent' anonymous and are present in their IRC channels are mostly of limited hacking experiance and are normally teens off 4chan. Whoever did this also did it for personal gain, not to help 'consumers' as anon said was the reason for the attack.
What they fail to understand is that this hurts consumers not helps. The fact is that the average PS3 owner does not care about homebrew/cfw, they do not care about linux, they do not care about geohot or anyone else Sony is suing, they do not care about backups. They DO care about PSN, their CC details, the economy and their privacy.
I think I talk on behalf of a large chunk of the PS3 population in saying that geohot, other PS3 hackers, anonymous and people running CFW on their PS3 have negatively effected our PS3, the gaming experience and more (the financial pressure Sony is under has already forced them to sack some people).
So thank you (sarcasm intended)! It's just a shame that this ego-driven PS3 'scene' does not seem to notice or care about the average person, just themselves and trying to 'get one over' the PUBLIC COMPANY that is Sony. I emphasize public company because most of these same people seem to forgot Sony is a PUBLIC company. Not a single person, it is owned by normal people, normal people work there and all the time normal people come and go.
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i take it as they haven't the names of the people, because they are anonymous, LOL