PlayStation Network Back up : After outage wrap-up (update)

After the huge PlayStation Network Security Breach and weeks of little to no communication between Sony and their customers. Now Playstation Network is back up and running in some states in the U.S. at least. It is currently up in California, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and more as of the time this article was written and the Playstation blog will keep users updated with a map that shows where the service is up and down inside the United States. In the states that have the Playstation Network service running, though, there may be problems connecting because it will take time for the servers to “populate fully.” It was just yesterday that, while recording a podcast, we discussed how long it would take for Sony to bring the Playstation Network services completely back up and guessed that it would be by the beginning of Summer. Now Sony has taken their sweet time bringing it back up. As Sony said, it should be back up for the whole U.S. by the end of May. For foreign users we have no news yet. View the Sony Playstation Network updating map.
PlayStation Network has finally back online yesterday in many Territories. But some believe that PlayStation Network should remain offline for security reasons

Sony may have to brace itself for another hack this coming weekend

According to a report by CNET, Sony may have to brace itself for another hack this coming weekend.  Yes, another one.

An outsider of  IRC channel used by hackers says that the third major attack is planned for Sony's website, as punishment for the way Sony has handled the PlayStation network breach. The company only alerted customers a full week after the initial network hack, though it should have been much sooner.
To lay it on thick, the hackers also want to go a step beyond infiltrating the site. CNET says that they “plan to publicize all or some of the information they are able to copy from Sony's servers, which could include customer names, credit card numbers, and addresses, according to the source. The hackers claim they currently have access to some of Sony's servers.”




Sony recently admitted that the hackers stole personal information from “all of the approximately 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity service accounts" in a response to U.S. House of Representatives Committee investigating the matter. Gee whiz, dudes. Like that's not bad enough compared with all of the credit card information exposed.
Weeks before ago, several Sony websites were forced down by what some people believe is the work of hacker group Anonymous. They group is believed to be responsible for the PlayStation network breach, though Anonymous has said they do not “condone credit card theft.”
Regardless whether the planned attack is hearsay or not, Sony should step up their game to ensure nothing close happens. It's the last thing that the company really needs and would be, let's just say, less than ideal given what it's been through in the recent weeks.

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Here's a quote from the letter Anonymous sent to Sony a week before the Hack Attacks .

“Congratulations, Sony. You now have now received the undivided attention of Anonymous. Your recent legal action against our follow hackers, Geohot and Graf_Chokolo, has not only alarmed us, it has been deemed wholly unforgivable.

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