Monday, May 16, 2011

Access to Sony's PlayStation Network begins to return

Sony PlayStation Network has finally begun to come online, Sony Corp., President and CEO Kazuo Hirai announced Saturday night. The mandatory update for the PlayStation 3 (v3.61) system is currently available. Once installed, several PSN services, including the game for the PlayStation 3 and PSP online, should soon be available to users in the Americas, Europe, Australia and New Zealand and the Middle East. Sony is expected to have access to the full, worldwide restored by May 31.


"I want to send my sincere apologies for the inconvenience that the failure of service has caused you and you thanks for the patience you have demonstrated that we have worked through the process of restoration," said Hirai in a video announcing the NHP's back. "I can't thank you enough for your patience and your support during this period.".


Restored in the NHP the return phase characteristics include: reading of the delivery Service rental service PlayStation Network video for PS3, PSP and MediaGo devices; Unlimited music on Qirocity for subscribers. access to the services of third parties, such as Netflix and Hulu; The friends list, Chat and comparison of trophy on PS3. and PlayStation Home.


As part of Sony reinforced security measures, all users must change their password account NHP and Qirocity. Passwords cannot be changed that on the machine that was used to activate the account.


All NHPS and Qirocity users will receive a "welcome back" package once their PSN access is restored. The United States, users can check this map to see if the service has been restored to their State. (Or you know, just frantically continue to try to connect until it works). At the time of this writing, no State had yet received access, as is said restoration really looking for Sunday.


In addition to his apology, Sony has maintained that they believed that they were prepared for such an attack, but say that black hat traps of modern hacker change constantly, which makes it more difficult to defend.


Hackers who has committed the disastrous security breach and theft of data on nearly $ 13 million credit card accounts remain in the dark, if the anonymous members of the hacktivist group have been highlighted as possible suspects. Group officially denies any role in the breach.

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