Sony PlayStation Network Might Not Be Back Online For Weeks

Waiting for the PlayStation Network to go back online? You'll have to wait some more.

Sony says the PlayStation Network will be fully restored by May 31, according to Bloomberg, despite earlier promises to have the network back up by this Monday.

"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," the company said in a press release. "We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers."

Sony's PlayStation Network was breached by hackers, exposing over 100 million accounts. According to All Things Digital, the company is considering offering a bounty for information to help find the culprits.

Sony has accused the activist hacker group Anonymous of contributing to the major breach, though Anonymous has repeatedly denied any culpability.

UPDATE:
Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat reports that Bloomberg's information is incorrect and that there is no new information regarding when the PlayStation Network will relaunch.

Comments

[Shane - Ireland]

07:53 AM on 05/10/2011

Look at what America has achieved since Sony PSN went down. Good jobs report, getting Osama etc. etc. Not to mention the benefits of vitamin D from exposure to the suns rays.

[INCIRCLEpromo]

04:36 PM on 05/10/2011

lol

[INCIRCLEpromo]

01:21 AM on 05/10/2011

ok so..what if someone owed someone some money..and thats why the psn is down..i mean..how in the world could anyone hack into something so big as SONY ? im jus sayin..this whole thing jus sounds crazy..then..SONY releases all kinds of wrong info about coming back..1st our credit cards were touched-then not..then we were looking at jus two more days until they relaunch..i mean..im jus sayin..

[GEM-592]

12:43 AM on 05/10/2011

It will give you a chance to get some more exercise.

[xtiangodloki]

11:33 PM on 05/09/2011

You feel sorry for the developers whose games came out during the PSN outage.

Hopefully these hackers are caught. Sony has its problems but if you don't like Sony just boycott the whole thing yourself. Microsoft must be very happy.

[heboprotagonist]

10:54 PM on 05/09/2011

You get what you pay for. Free = cheap.

[PsychicTuesday]

01:04 AM on 05/10/2011

As a victim of the PSN identity theft along with millions of other users, I can say the experience was otherwise pretty decent. I'm not at all convinced by this breach that you know what you're talking about.

The history of commerce is replete with examples of getting far less than you pay for.

[Rubix41]

10:13 PM on 05/09/2011

The network outage not only affects the multiplayer capabilities, but also the ability to purchase anything on the store, get necessary updates, etc...I'm hoping to get compensated for this inconvenience not just for the inability to do things previously mentioned but also the fact that my profile possibly got hacked. Peeps are getting on my saved games and not gettin me any trophies! Noobs!

[INCIRCLEpromo]

01:24 AM on 05/10/2011

compensate­d?? its free..

[portabello]

03:12 AM on 05/10/2011

It's not free. You paid for the access to multiplayer games when you bought the machine. Nobody would buy a gaming console that couldn't use the Internet.

Gaming consoles without Internet access don't sell. That's why internet access is included 'free'. If their multiplayer games could be played without access to the network, that would be fine. As it stands, people who paid money for a game cannot play it with their friends.

And honestly, that's the least of Sony's problems at the moment. They've lost 100 million credit card numbers and aren't telling us what else the cyber criminals got access to.

[TheN8tureBoy]

10:13 PM on 05/09/2011

I'm a PS3 owner and I like the Playstation Network but I'm not going to cry until they fix it.

[nrrork]

10:10 PM on 05/09/2011

While Sony DOES deserve a large amount of blame for this debacle, and the sins they've committed in the past-- mostly out of arrogance-- this whole mess has reminded me that the gamer subculture is overrun with spoiled, impossible-to-please, little brats who believe they are entitled to nothing less than perfection on every product 100% of the time.

There's a reason a lot of people find it hard to believe the average gamer is in his 30s: they behave like children!

I'm upset at Sony, but I still have my PS3, and I still enjoy it a lot, I still don't regret buying it, I still think it best met what my needs were, and I will continue to enjoy it. I think the 360 is a terrific system at well, but there were some PS3 exclusives that I really wanted, and that's why I bought one instead of 360.

[frank day]

10:24 PM on 05/09/2011

Hey, it makes a cool looking door stop or paper weight!

[portabello]

02:51 AM on 05/10/2011

Every impossible-to-please little brat had to have a credit card to create an account on PSN. I think all of us brats expect some level of security when handing out our credit card information, even if the service is 'free'.

I love my PS3, I'm using it for all I've ever used it for, watching blu-rays and Netflix.

I couldn't care less if their network ever came back up, but I would like an update as to whether my credit card information was stolen, but I guess I'm just impossible-to-please.

[supergenius02]

10:02 PM on 05/09/2011

Sony's reputation is destroyed. 100 million accounts now at risk, poor public relations on updates, and no trust that this will not happen again. Absolutely no one is buying PS3's now. Microsoft is gobbling up market share and Sony's only prayer is to release the Playstation 4 early. Sony let their Walkman get pummeled by Apple's iPod, Sony's tv's are getting pummeled by new companies like Vizio and now their consoles just took a dive. I have never seen a company implode like this.

[catalyst1219]

09:41 PM on 05/09/2011

It would be awesome if during this down time they also worked on making the service as a whole not suck. I have all three major systems and in my opinion PSN is a joke compared to Xbox Live. I have said for years that I wished Sony would improve PSN and then charge for it if need be. I'd rather pay for a quality service then get a piece of crap for free.

[JennZ]

08:33 PM on 05/09/2011

Well, I will wait for the PS network because I love Black Ops. Mama's gotta prestige. I also like the PS better than XBox and Wii (yes, I have all three). It's a good thing I'm very patient.

[Jon Polm]

08:15 PM on 05/09/2011

Sold my PS3 the day of the 1st PSN downage, never going back. They should change their name to Incompetence Inc.

[JennZ]

08:35 PM on 05/09/2011

It was a pretty sophisticated attack and I think that both XBox or Wii would have similar issues.

[TheN8tureBoy]

10:11 PM on 05/09/2011

I'm going to guess you have a Vitamin D deficiency and no friends.

[firelord5000]

11:31 PM on 05/09/2011

Throwing rocks at glass houses.

[Jon Polm]

06:06 AM on 05/10/2011

I have Celiac-Sprue and 1 friend!

[La la land]

08:14 PM on 05/09/2011

Good lord, don't journalists check facts anymore? Sony's already announced that the May 31st deadline is for the FULL PSN to be operational again. They've previously announced that they would have a phased release up to that point. This article suggests that the PSN will be completely down until 5/31. At the very least, write the article so it's more clear.

[portabello]

03:02 AM on 05/10/2011

I'm betting they aren't even going to make the 5/31 deadline. We shall see.

Why looky here! There's been an update to the article!

UPDATE:

"Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat reports that Bloomberg's information is incorrect and that there is no new information regarding when the PlayStation Network will relaunch."

The entire article was based on incorrect information.

Here's the problem. It's a case of pure negligence on Sony's part for not applying the security patches to their servers. They have to make sure all their ducks are in a row before the massive class action lawsuit heads their way. That takes time. At some point they are going to have to admit what happened and it's not going to be pretty.

[Algebra Palin]

07:33 PM on 05/09/2011

fook sony

[Sam Salinitis]

07:16 PM on 05/09/2011

any idiot who still compares his ps3 or xbox with one another is too broke to buy both ....