TOKYO - Sony said that he started the restoration of its PlayStation Network games service Sunday, almost a month after a massive security breach forced the company to stop.
The players and security experts had criticized Sony for the treatment of the incident, which led to prosecutions and cast a shadow over its plans to combine the strengths of its products, materials and content via online services.
The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant apologized to customers of the outage and said that a range of new security measures had been introduced. These included an early warning system that could alert the company to any attempt to enter the network.
"I can't thank you enough for your patience and your support during this period," Sony No. 2 Kazuo Hirai has said in the press release, which was also posted as a video message on the PlayStation Network blog.
"We take aggressive measures at all levels to respond to the concerns raised by this incident and make data from consumer protection full time, the commitment of the entire company."
A single message to a user of PlayStation Network under the name of SG-1_F-302 on the blog to read simply: "thank you Sony!"
But some users have said that the prolonged outage has prompted to compete with Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service.
In what is believed to be the largest breach of security of the genus, hackers accessed personal information on the PlayStation Network and Qriocity of 77 million accounts, of which 90% are in North America and Europe and stole credit card information.
The hijackers rented a server to Amazon for the attack, Bloomberg news said earlier in the day, citing a source of knowledge of the case.
Sony has discovered an unusual activity on its PlayStation Network, which allows owners of game console downloadable games, chat with friends and stand their skills against rivals, on 19 April.
Close the network and the service of film, frustrating many users and its music of qriocity online, it took almost a week before alert users to the extent of the leak of security.
The company later discovers that a separate Department of games online, had also been penetrated, allowing access to another user of 25 million accounts.
PROCESS TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE MAY 31
Sony said the restoration of a PlayStation Network online film and Qriocity and music services would take place on a country by country basis, and that he expected the process to be completed before May 31.
Sony Online Entertainment services are also being restored and customers will be offered as compensation for the failure free game time, the company said.
Sony also said it had appointed an acting chief information officer to oversee security on its networks.
The attack from Sony is the highest profile of a series that have affected large companies in the course of recent months, fuelling doubts about the security of cloud computing services.
"Over the past 18 months, we have seen a dramatic increase in the volume of cyber-attacks, their complexity and their impact on business," Sony cited Francis deSouza of the Symantec Internet security company said.
Japanese games company Square Enix, known for the Final Fantasy series, said Saturday that hackers had consulted one of its Web sites and obtained information, including the clients up to 25 000 e-mail addresses and possibly resumes of job seekers.
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