jueves, 19 de mayo de 2011

Sony Denies Rumors of New PSN Hack, Services Restored

New reports which indicate that the Sony PlayStation Network has experienced a fresh hack attack are not accurate according to the gaming company. A report was issued by Nyleveia.com today which stated that despite weeks of working on the problems which led to the Sony outage, there are new vulnerabilities which had been discovered on the PSN, putting sensitive user account information at risk.


Several news outlets picked up on the report, and when coupled with the fact that the PSN Password Reset page was down for a number of hours, all fingers pointed at Sony as having undergone another attack by hackers, which is precisely what these news outlets reported to their public. The news reports all said that the PlayStation Network has once again been compromised, which more than likely resulted in sighs of exasperation from PSN users.

The password reset page had been added to prompt users to resent their passwords now that services had been restored. Nyleveia reported that their decision to share the exploit was based on a new discovery and was designed to be a warning and nothing more. They had not intended their report to trigger rumors of a new PSN attack.

Reports that Sony has suffered yet another hack are greatly exaggerated, the gaming company said today. While Sony admitted to blocking PSN login access to certain users, and taking down the PSN password reset page for several hours, they denied any new hacks had occurred. They later issued a statement on their company blog alerting users that the systems had been restored and that the reports of a new hack were inaccurate.

Sony has truly worked hard to restore service and to compensate users for the outage which lasted several weeks. Sony offered a ‘Welcome Back Package’ to users with free games, free premium services, and more. Your level of compensation is dependent on which Sony PSN services you are subscribed to which thereby determines the level of damage.

Sony customers had mixed reactions, with some uses being furious with the actual hackers, and others furious with Sony for being vulnerable to the attacks in the first place. Its too early to tell how many players may have jumped ship, but we cant deny that Sony is working hard to restore confidence and make amends.

27 comentarios:

  1. That's great. I heard about suspicions of another attack, though. Hope that doesn't happen.

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  2. Good good, seems like everything is up and running.

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  3. I'm pretty sure it's BS. They didn't tell people of the first hack until 5 days after it happened.

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  4. I don't know if I would ever use anything other than one of those prepaid cards on PSN for a while.

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  5. Hope the attacks does not happens. Nice post, btw.

    :)

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  6. Heard of more attacks coming but think it's probably false.

    This is why you need an xbox ;)

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  7. Good if the new hacks never happened. Bad if Sony is still vulnerable.

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  8. I really hope all of these shenanigans settle down when I get a PS3...

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  9. It doesn't really matter anymore, people either moved to other consoles or won't ever use their credit card with Sony and will just buy game cards.

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  10. wonder what they will say at e3 lol

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  11. Sony fans just can't catch a break anymore!

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  12. remember with PSN you get what you pay for

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  13. I wouldn't put it past them to lie to all of us.

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  14. Poor Sony. Now they must be very hated by their own user...

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  15. That would be horrible news for Sony if PSN was hacked again. They've been having a stroke of bad luck lately.

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  17. I doubt they're in the clear, yet.

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  18. don't know what PSN did to deserve this.

    +followed

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  19. Sony sucks hope everyone enjoyed the downtime

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  20. I wonder if by now they can ever get back all the bad publicity from this

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  21. I'm disappointed in Sony for most of the way they attempted to handle the PSN hack.

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