Looking for a little on-line gaming with your PlayStation?
You’ve probably been waiting a while as the company tries to figure out how it got hacked and what information is out there.
It’s been a week now and it looks like it could be another week before Sony is willing to open up the site again.
“We expect to have some services up and running within a week from [April 26]. However, we want to be very clear that we will only restore operations when we are confident that the network is secure,” Sony said on its blog.
This isn’t the first time an online gaming service has been down for two weeks. Back in late December 2007, Microsoft’s Xbox Live caved under a sudden spike in online gamers, but that wasn’t due to hackers and no personal information was compromised. Nevertheless, Xbox 360 gamers were extremely ticked off they weren’t able to pew pew their buds over the winter holidays.
They can keep it down as long as they need to, just as long as when the PSN comes back it’s secure. There’s already reports of fraud on users’ credit cards, and that Sony was using completely insufficient encryption when transmitting that information from console to PSN.
I haven’t had anything show up, thank God. Just switched my debit card # at my bank today, and I was in need of a new one anyhow.
You can still play online with your PS3 if you use LAN tunneling software on your computer. Just about any game that has LAN options (CoD, Rainbow 6, etc) can be played using this. If you’re interested in trying it, Google for “Xlink Kai”. Works for xbox, ps3, mac and pc. Some technical set up required, eg router.
Considering that when i worked for Sony, most of the execs and all the PR people couldn’t find their ass with both hands and a map, I’m not at all surprised that they were arrogant enough to believe that the PS3 could never be hacked. These people don’t live in the real world and I really hope some heads roll at Sony over this.
I’ve had my credit card hit for about $900. Luckely visa caught the fraud.
Bad Karma. I guess that Sony shouldn’t have put those hidden rootkits on the music disks a few years ago. I grieve for all the PSN users, but not for Sony.