Sony Blames 'External Intrusion' For Lengthy PSN Outage

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday April 23, 2011 @12:45PM from the satisfaction-is-not-guaranteed dept.

Several readers have noted that outages on Sony's PlayStation Network have prevented online play for the past few days. The company has now blamed an 'external intrusion' for the trouble, saying they took down the network to "conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward." Some suspect an attack by Anonymous, who declared war on Sony earlier this month, but Anonymous has disavowed knowledge of such an attack. Meanwhile, others are asking whether Sony should compensate users for the inability to play PS3 multiplayer modes, and even single-player modes on a few downloadable games.

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Best three days I've had with my son by Anonymous Coward · 2011-04-23 12:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

This has been the best time that my 15 year old son and I have had since the PlayStation arrived in December. With the network dead, we went bicycling and bowling (his top score was 134); he showed me how to solve the last layer (well the OLL) of the Rubik's Cube.
I deeply thank whoever did this, and I wish you only the best!
-CS in Berkeley