Sony PlayStation Network is being phased in

Today, Sony has announced the successful restoration of the Sony PlayStation Network in some regions. According to company representatives, PSN is being restored in stages, and now a significant part of PSN users may return to their accounts again. However, not all problems have been resolved, with the result that some users will still not be able to log into their account or register. In addition, a PSN user who wants to start working with the service again must install a new PlayStation 3 firmware, which improves the security of network access and allows you to change your password.

Representatives of the corporation once again reported that they can not exclude the fact that millions of credit card numbers were compromised. So far, there is no evidence of this fact, but periodically there are reports that a certain group of people on the Net is trying to sell several million credit card numbers, claiming that this is data from PSN users. How everything is in fact, is unknown.
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As for PSN, this service began to “revive” on Saturday, but then some problems started again, and today, on Sunday, some PSN users got access to the service functions. True, the European segment of the network does not seem to work yet, because when I try to access the PSN site, I personally see the message “Website ru.playstation.com is temporarily unavailable due to technical work. We advise you to visit the following sites. " In addition, there is a notice that “eu.playstation.com is undergoing essential maintenance and is currently unavailable. In the meantime, you can visit the websites below. ”

By the way, the gradual restoration of the service in practice means that PSN is alternately “reborn” in various countries and individual states of such regions as the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East. As previously reported, Sony hopes to fully restore its online services by the end of May.

Well, in the meantime, you have to apologize for the thousandth time and bow, bow, bow. Sony suffers multimillion-dollar losses due to hacking and inoperative services, buyers rent PS3 consoles back to the stores, plus the company's shares are falling in price. Presumably, after the restoration of the services, everything will gradually return to normal, the shares will rise in price, the consoles will start selling again, but users' confidence in the PSN protection system and Sony as a whole has been seriously undermined, and it will be very difficult to return.

Via yahoo