BDC?

Does anyone know what order and when they will start turning servers back on?. btw that facebook psn page is pure gold

Sony shuts down their Online PC Portal for fears it might have been hacked as well but Sony can't confirm it. An issue during their investigation of PSN might have shown something similar was going on in their PC Portal services.

http://kotaku.com/#!5797619/sonys-on...rtal-goes-down

Hope psn comes back online and not keep it off cause of SOE breach

It's beginning to look like this was a semi-inside job, or at least former employer. They laid off 200 SOE employees just days before the PSN hack and a lot of their security teams were shared.

Beyond a joke now...

Today, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing in Washington, DC on “The Threat of Data Theft to American Consumers.”Kazuo Hirai, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sony Computer Entertainment America, submitted written answers to questions posed by the subcommittee about the large-scale, criminal cyber-attack we have experienced. We wanted to share those answers with you (click here).In summary, we told the subcommittee that in dealing with this cyber attack we followed four key principles:Act with care and caution. Provide relevant information to the public when it has been verified. Take responsibility for our obligations to our customers. Work with law enforcement authorities.

We also informed the subcommittee of the following:Sony has been the victim of a very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack. We discovered that the intruders had planted a file on one of our Sony Online Entertainment servers named “Anonymous” with the words “We are Legion.” By April 25, forensic teams were able to confirm the scope of the personal data they believed had been taken, and could not rule out whether credit card information had been accessed. On April 26, we notified customers of those facts. As of today, the major credit card companies have not reported any fraudulent transactions that they believe are the direct result of this cyber attack. Protecting individuals’ personal data is the highestpriority and ensuring that the Internet can be made secure for commerce is also essential. Worldwide, countries and businesses will have to come together to ensure the safety of commerce over the Internet and find ways to combat cybercrime and cyber terrorism.

We are taking a number of steps to prevent future breaches, including enhanced levels of data protection and encryption; enhanced ability to detect software intrusions, unauthorized access and unusual activity patterns; additional firewalls; establishment of a new data center in an undisclosed location with increased security; and the naming of a new Chief Information Security Officer.

sorry bout mutliple posts, using my ps3 to do this with

I got an email from SOE from when I signed up there like 6 years ago. I think I used my CC but it has since expired.

Sony hacked again

It's funny. Working last night at Gamestop we had a customer come in bitching about the PSN being down. We're used to it these days, but what totally blew me away were his next few comments.

"Man, the fucking 3 (assuming PS3) is sooo much betta than the box. (Assuming XBOX360) That shit prolly got hacked by some angry box fanboys. Those fuckas just be hatin on the 3 so they hacked it so we gotta suffer. That's why I hate the box and people who use it."

How moronic can you be? To blatantly assume that this was all done out of spite by a fanboy? It makes no damned sense. I swear all logic goes out of these peoples heads when this shit happens. He went on for about 10 minutes bitching about the PS3 and how it is far more superior to the XBOX, but we (my manager and I) just kept hitting him with facts about the pros and cons of both systems. He of course labeled us as PS3 haters, but that's untrue as I own all 3 major consols, but PREFER to get enjoyment from playing my 360 more so.

What really got me was after 25 minutes of talking to this guy and his dad, he went home with a 250GB Kinect bundle 360, a used copy of MvC3, a new copy of Mortal Kombat, a used Black Ops, and the new map pack for Black Ops.

Man, people sure are losing their minds over all of this. I mean, I want to play myself but there are other things people can be doing.

haters gonna hate

You know, I really miss playing DCUO...


so much that I'm about to cancel my motherfucking subscription. Whipping out UFC undisputed 2010. Fuck this MMO shit.


and yes, I'm butthurt over this

I'd see about having Sony reimburse you for a month subscription for it while you're at it.

DC Universe Online players get credit, mask for downtime

by Alexander Sliwinski http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.jo...writer_rss.gif (20 hours ago)
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Sony Online Entertainment plans to give all DC Universe Online players a free month and "Batman-Inspired mask" as compensation for the current outage. The company asked players on the game's Facebook page to bear with them as "the complexities of the subscription server dictate how and when this will be available" and that the company will be releasing "more information this week."

The outage is part of the overall PlayStation Network issue that resulted in SOE announcing earlier this week that 12,700 credit card numbers were taken and 24.6 million accounts were compromised. So, yeah, a free month and a virtual hat seems like a good start to an apology.

an apology on the heels of dwindling server populations, silly as glitches and bugs and insane queue times...

Kiss of death for an initially promising MMO.

BTW FUCK A GODDAMN MASK, unless owning it would give me 500 feat points.

Free month, meh to me. I got a job don't really care about losing 8 bucks due to a game being offline.

My question would be: did you fuckwits take this 'downtime' to address that ARC in the inner sanctum raid? Him and the Zeta Drone make clearing that bitch mission freaking insanity!


Did anyone else see Fast Five?










I'M GIVING YOU PEOPLE GOLD HERE!

Likewise.

This guy was clearly fucked in the head.

Kinda figured that when he came in the store bitching about the PS3.

So apparently the hackers are planning another attack against Sony this weekend. This is fucking pathetic.

Lol. Do they even have a legit reason for doing this or are they doing it with the sole purpose of being douches?

"VIDEOGAMES MUST DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" [/random hacker/VG hater dude]

I just don't see why they keep hacking Sony is all. Do they have a legit beef with them or are they just showing their asses?

I would assume because they can or they are just bored

Anonymous first started because Sony was basically gathering information on anyone who visited a certain hacker's website (first guy to hack the PS3 or whatever), regardless of whether they were PS3 users, hackers or even involved in anyway with Sony's lawsuit against the guy.

Sony starts experiencing difficulties across the board with online.

Sony gets hacked by a pro (pros?) and they pull the plug on the PSN. The FBI gets involved and Sony finally reveals the reason PSN is down.

That brings us to now. I doubt Anonymous is behind the gathering of personal info or credit cards. They pull docs for the lulz all the time, but usually to individual people who are being assclowns on the internet. Targeting millions of people in one go and credit card numbers to boot is not their m.o.

IMO, whoever pulled the info is acting alone or in a small group and is using Anonymous as a cover thanks to some good timing.

I say cut their fingers off and snip their vocal cords as punishment. That'll teach them.

Pretty much, especially since the hackers have claimed they're going to reveal the info, and supposedly are trying to sell it.

However, Anon might have shot itself in the foot with the whole "if you claim to be a part of anonymous you are" thing. Especially since the anonymous file they found left as a calling card on Sony's servers. So they can say it's not them all they want, but with the timing, and their stupid little theory, they're going to catch some blame.

Some good news for PSN owners and some bad news for Sony itself ... actually really bad news if its true for Sony.

The Good News:
1) Sony of Europe giving away 2 free games to PSN users once the services go back online. They will offer users 2 games from a pool of 5 PS3 games and 4 PSP games.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/sony-e...k-online/3145/
2) PSN is in the final stages of testing and security fixes and should go up "in a week."

The Bad News:
Assuming the recent report is true, Sony might be in bigger trouble for negligence due to knowing their security and PSN structure was vulnerable and did nothing to protect sensitive information months before the recent PSN attack. The timing of the "open forum" is also around the same time Sony laid off a good amount of employees from their PSN security division.

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/securi...r-months/3143/

There is another rumor of Sony's real reason for the long wait from the shutdown of PSN to finally informing PSN users was due to Sony knowingly trying to sweep away any of their involvement in the mess before the public knew and used lawyers to find out how much they can deny in the mess.

No, that's good news for Europeans. What the fuck am I getting

a month of shitty +

The ability to be a member of an Identity Theft Program available only by Sony worth up to $1 million of potential coverage or basically one of the insurance programs Sony already covers in their credit card services.

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/8...-us-psn-users/

May 06 2011 Service Restoration Update

+ Posted by Patrick Seybold // Sr. Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media

As you may know, we’ve begun the process of restoring the service through internal testing of the new system. We’re still working to confirm the security of the network infrastructure, as well as working with a variety of outside entities to confirm with them of the security of the system. Verifying the system security is vital for the process of restoration. Additional comprehensive system checks and testing are still required, and we must complete that process before bringing the systems online.
As you’ve heard us say, our utmost priorities are the security of the network and ensuring your data is safe. We won’t restore the services until we can test the system’s strength in these respects.
When we held the press conference in Japan last week, based on what we knew, we expected to have the services online within a week. We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system. We know many of you are wanting to play games online, chat with your friends and enjoy all of the services PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have to offer, and trust me when I say we’re doing everything we can to make it happen. We will update you with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for the delay and inconvenience of this network outage.

Don't you get that already?

my cock hardly throbs :-\

throbbing hard or hardly throbbing

Everyday this is down,the xbox is beginning to look like the right purchase

Didn't realize how many people rely solely on the online component of video games today. I am almost completely unaffected by this but everyone else is shitting their pants.

Eat a dick get aids and die sony.

-ps3 owner

Same, the only thing I use PSN for on a regular basis is to sync / check out trophies and occasionally I message people who happen to signed in. The few of my friends who are throwing a fit about it being down don't even use it to play games and my one friend who actually plays COD and Fifa online is not bothered at all by this whole thing.

Yeah, the only game I played online with any consistency was Uncharted 2. Might check out MK online when it comes back up, but fighter tends to leave a bad taste in my mouth when playing them online.

Sony considering adding a reward for information that could lead to the identity of the hacker(s) who caused both PSN and SOE to go down but as of now is leaning on doing no reward.

Sony is also contesting the reports of their security and firmware being out-dated for PSN as a way to disprove the security experts reports of out-dated security and lessen any negligence on their part.

http://kotaku.com/#!5799737/sony-pon...was-up+to+date

Well my friend's identity got stolen apparently. Or at least somebody drained his bank account and spent $350 on colon cleansing products.

Sony are saying that everything should be up by May 31st.

Not sure if things will come up earlier than that or if everything will now be up on the same day.

I'd love to know how much money this is costing Sony..... not just the cost of fixing the system, but just not having PSN active.....

That sucks if its true, hope i don't be a victim. im broke ass anyways

What would that be? A free copy of God of War 3, and Uncharted?

Sony is now denying the "May 31" as the day PSN goes back up. They must be worried PSN won't be fully up or if that day passes and nothing is done, a lot of angry users.

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/sony-d...toration/3149/



Capcom is also upset since the delay and PSN downtime is costing a good amount of money they expected to have used on future projects. Although unlike others, Capcom's DRM takes some blame for not allowing games to be played offline.

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/capcom...it-money/3153/

Fuck Capcom here. They can whine and bitch, but they put DRM in their PSN games which makes you require a PSN connection, totally making them unplayable during the downtime.

Cant even get rid off my ps3 cause of what i spent on dlc. no new blog posts since 7th, something is up

Just read on BBC Teletext that sony said they should have had some services restored by the end of last week, but now restoration will NOT be up until last week in may

And im looking for way more than 2 free games. (Probably launch titles) need to join that lawsuit, cracka needs to get paid

I'll just play Stacking for free and be happy, I guess.

Direct from playstation blog. I know you all want to know exactly when the services will be restored. At this time, I can’t give you an exact date, as it will likely be at least a few more days. We’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work through this process.

You do realize how utterly minuscule your payout in a class action would be, right?

I used my ps3 today and the last time i played was before the psn went down, when i tried to play today i found out that everything that was dlc in all of my game don't work anymore, is it because of the psn problem ???

Well i got dlc for rock band and that still works.

I doubt it, since everything works fine on mine, including my Playstation Plus DLC. Did you somehow deactivate your account on your Playstation?

Or they're Capcom games. They require PSN.

Well i think i'll finish deadrising 2, beef stroganoff

I didn't desactivate my acount. I tried to play assassin's creed but when i choose to continue it tells me that i can't continue cause the dlc missions are missing. In smackdown i've lost all the official dlc but i still got the downloaded created wrestler and stories, it's weird cause the dlc wrestlers data still in the game, Wade Barret still the champ but i can't use him.In red dead redemption i can see in the menu that i've got the zombie part but it don't work, In rock band the songs are all there but they don't work. All the demos still working, it's the in-game dlc that don't work. All my games saves still there, it's only the dlc that is mising.

Mine work just fine, try it while disabling the ps3 internet connection.

PlayStation Network could be restored within days, according to a report.Users at NeoGAFhave said that an internal network intended for game developers can now be accessed by a number of people.Although certain features are said to be "shaky" and the ability to create new accounts is missing, for all intents and purposes the network is online.It has been suggested that online matchmaking will be the first feature to return, with a Sony source telling Eurogamerthat it will be restored within a few days.Yesterday, it was reported that the number of PlayStation 3 systems being traded in has increased as a result of the prolonged downtime.Earlier this week, Sony said that it was unsure of an exact date for the return of PlayStation Network, but has suggested that all services will be fully operational by the end of the month. from digital spy

update 3.61 is out

It allows you to change your PSN password. Still can't connect for any other reason.

on US blog its says they already started restoration

I thought people said netflix still works. I can get to the movie selection, but can't get anything to actually play without being signed in to psn.

Only for developers and publishers who use PSN although some reports said the network is still unstable and crashes.

Imagine if this happened to xbox live.

I think that's what all this 2012 stuff is about.

Was able to download the FW update, but that's it, same old maintenance message that's been there for weeks.

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It would be exactly the same as it is with PSN, only people would be bitching "I pay for this this?"

Network has been on for 2 hours. but the PS store isnt up yet

a few days ago I overheard a dude that works at gamestop say that Sony was going to give everyone on the PSN one free day for every day it was out.

ps store isnt a priority atm, it will be bk up before 31st

when are they going to think about turning EU on?, most of the usa is up jeez.surely we should be first cause of time difference

It's Sunday, we should still be in bed.

Damn, all rusty at black ops now.

2hrs since all of the u.s was up, and not a peep on when EU will be up.

2pm here and still no fucking psn.... useless fucking useless

Played a couple of hours of Duty last night with some buddies, was a good time. Thank god psn back up :)

Yo add IswiftsplayaI if you want to play together

Aight. Not home right now but add me (mhirn3) if you wanna play later incase i forget

lol

Apparently back down again. I assumed it would be just after going up, everyone connecting at once and probably some hackers trying to see if it's really fixed.

US PS3 owners can pick 2 from the following games:

Dead Nation
inFAMOUS
LittleBigPlanet
Super Stardust HD
Wipeout HD + Fury

US PSP can pick 2 from these:

LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
ModNation Racers
Pursuit Force
Killzone Liberation

Europe:



Two PS3 games from the following list:

• LittleBigPlanet
• Infamous*
• Wipeout HD/Fury
• Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
• Dead Nation*

For those with PSP accounts, you will also be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list:

• LittleBigPlanet PSP
• ModNation PSP
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation*

Lame choices. Yeah I don't care that they are free and Sony doesn't have to give us anything those are still lame ass choices. I won't even bother getting any of them (I already have LBP and Infamous)