Road to Recovery of Sony's to its Play Station Network
However, Sony yesterday announced a phased roll-out of core network services on a country-by-country basis. Starting in the Americas and spreading to Europe, Australia, New Zealand and finally the Middle East, the newly secured network is this week becoming available once again.
Players face a forced software update and password reset - and many more complex elements of the network are still switched off - but it will be a welcome return for some users.
For almost a month, access to networked features on PlayStation 3 games consoles has been switched off as the hacked PlayStation Network has not allowed players to log in.
Sony has also added a variety of other measures to the network infrastructure, including an early-warning system for unusual activity patterns that could signal an attempt to compromise the network.
To encourage its customers to come back to the service, Sony had already announced a "Welcome Back" program that includes 30 days of free access to PlayStation Plus, 30 days of free access to Music Unlimited by Qriocity, as well as free identity theft monitoring from Debix, and a promise of free downloads in the future. Sony has not yet offered specifics on the last promise.
In a video message to customers, Hirai said all PS3 customers must change their PSN and Qriocity account passwords upon their return.
This comes after the painful hack attack on Sony's PSN that prevented the users to log in. In addition, credit and debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) for about 12,700 non-U.S. customers that were in an "outdated" database from 2007, and about 10,700 direct debit records listing bank account numbers of customers in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Spain may have been stolen, the statement said.
Read More...
No comments:
Post a Comment