PSN is Down Worldwide

**Mellusia** · 04-27-2011, 11:59 PM

Not really news-news anymore, but I figure I'd make a thread about it.

According to Sony, sometime between April 17 and April 19, PSN was attacked from the outside by hackers, and they more or less shut 'er down for security sake.

And it's been down ever since.

There's been massive concern over people's sensitive private info and credit card info accessed by the hackers and Sony is encouraging people to check with the credit card companies and to change their passwords.

According to a news source, over 75 million PSN accounts have been compromised, and there's yet to be a ETA announced of when the service will be back up.

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Well I'm peeved. I got DLC I want to DL, but I can't, hmph. Luckily for me, I never used a credit card on PSN, but I still have about 60 dollars between my NA and EU account, so I don't wanna be losing my money Dx

**Daesy** · 04-29-2011, 08:27 PM

There should be some compensation for time being offline and damages to accounts. I'm on the XBOX Live, so it doesnt affect me, but they need to take responsibility for there mistakes.

**Ryvius** · 05-03-2011, 08:03 PM

I'd like to think they'll offer compensation, but I don't know. Even if they do, it'll just be some free time under their "plus" program which doesn't interest me much.

**Ryvius** · 05-08-2011, 03:45 PM

Relevant news for PSN users. Seems compensation will be in the form of free games. Available games have yet to be announced, so we'll see if it's anything worth downloading.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ing-down-time/

**Casanova** · 05-08-2011, 06:30 PM

They're first-party titles, which means games that have only been developed and/or published under Sony or it's subsidiaries. In short, we'll get to choose between games like LittleBigPlanet and MotorStorm.

**Ryvius** · 05-15-2011, 02:02 AM

So PSN is coming back up in the states, and is back up for certain states. Georgia is one of them, My ps3 is currently performing the update to get back online.

**Casanova** · 05-17-2011, 08:37 PM

So I'm gonna grab me some Wipeout HD and inFAMOUS. What are you guys gonna choose?

**Ryvius** · 05-19-2011, 06:28 PM

I'm almost definitely gonna grab inFAMOUS, because I hear it's a lot of a fun and I could use some games that aren't as invested as the rpg's I usually pick up. Besides that, I'll have to look into the other ones. I'm wondering if, as a person who owns a PS3 and a PSP will I be able to choose 2 from the combined lists, or two from each as some people are assuming.