PSN down for up to 2 days

[prezzy]

Update on PSN Service Outages

While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we’re able to get the service completely back up and running. Thank you very much for your patience while we work to resolve this matter. Please stay tuned to this space for more details, and we’ll update you again as soon as we can.

[lloydi]

oh dear, has anonymous been at it again

[jamie_h88]

Just ad portal is released gay

[AxE]

Fuckin nob heads if it is them.

[WRATH OF BOD]

kids are doing my head in.both ps3's cant sign in.lol

[4me2]

Playstation Network suffers major outage




An error message like this one greeted users trying to log-in to the Playstation Network



Millions of gamers are unable to play online as the Playstation Network continues to suffer a major outage.
In a blog post, makers Sony thanked users for their patience but warned the downtime - which has so far lasted more than 20 hours - could continue for "a day or two".
Users are seeing error messages stating the network is "undergoing maintenance" or is "suspended".
In recent weeks, Playstation has been targeted by hackers group Anonymous.
The network has more than 70 million users worldwide, but Sony were unable clarify how many players had been affected.
However, Twitter messages and blog posts have been posted from all over the world.
This outage is the latest in a series of problems for the network which has suffered extended periods of downtime over the past few weeks.
In response, angry gamers have flooded blogs, forums and Twitter with complaints.
"A full day and you guys still have no clue what is causing this," wrote user Slickshoes in response to the company's blog post.
Another user, Max Smith, contacted the BBC to share his frustration over the delay in news surrounding the problem.
"To be honest I think that Sony need to give more updates towards the gamers via their Twitter account. There has been no update in the past 18 hours which is really making the community go crazy."
Anonymous, the group which gained notoriety over Wikileaks-related attacks, strongly criticised the Japan-based entertainment giant over its treatment of George Hotz, an American hacker who unlocked the games console's closed operating system.
Sony filed a lawsuit against the 21-year-old, arguing that his hack had allowed pirated games to be played on the machine.
The case was dropped earlier this month after Mr Hotz agreed to sign an injunction banning him from similar behaviour in future.
A spokesperson for Sony was unavailable for comment.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13169518

[4me2]

Hack Attack: Sony Confirms PlayStation Network Outage Caused By ‘External Intrusion’

Unfortunately for PlayStation Network and Qriocity services users, it looks like the widespread network outages will continue. Since Sony’s PlayStation and music networks went down two days ago, there has been a fair amount of public speculation over the cause of the outage. (Largely due to Sony’s tight-lipped handling of public relations.) Many blamed vengeful gremlins loose in Sony’s server clusters and datacenters, while others immediately pointed the finger at anonymous, the merry band of hackers that metastasized out of 4chan.
Thankfully, after 24+ hours of communication silence, Sony has updated its blog and ended the speculation. According to the electronics colossus, “an external intrusion” is responsible for the ongoing outages of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity.
As to who these nefarious “intruders” are: It seems that Sony does not yet know who is responsible for the breach, or if it does, it is instead smartly spending its time sealing areas of vulnerability and trying to get the network back up and running. And though reports of PlayStation’s outage began heating up early Thursday morning, Sony reports that it in fact self-defensively shut down the Network sometime Wednesday evening.
According to the network’s blog, “An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. In order to conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward, we turned off PlayStation Network & Qriocity services on the evening of Wednesday, April 20th. Providing quality entertainment services to our customers and partners is our utmost priority. We are doing all we can to resolve this situation quickly, and we once again thank you for your patience. We will continue to update you promptly as we have additional information to share.”
So, when I said Sony has ended all speculation, I was really only half-correct. Sony is still not naming the party responsible for the breach, so the speculation will likely continue. (Can you hear the blogosphere cheering?) Anonymous has prior beef with Sony and has attacked the company before, so it’s not surprising many blamed them for the service disruption. (You can read more about Anon’s prior grievances with Sony in yesterday’s post.)



However, AnonOps (Anonymous Operations), the group’s mouthpiece and network through which members frequently communicate, has adamantly stated via its news wing that it was not responsible for the outage. Though, it seems that this particular announcement was made prior to Sony delivering the news that the problem was in fact due to hacking. So, Anonymous pointing to Sony’s incompetence as the cause of the outages is off base. Sort of.
More likely, as Anonymous makes mention of in the announcement, the hack was perpetrated by some offshoot of the group, which is either more angry at Sony than the majority, or is more eager to get its precious “lulz”. (While I have to admit that I sometimes find myself sympathetic to some of Anonymous’ philosophical stances, it’s hard not to use words like “fundamentalist” when referring to “factions” within the group, and draw structural comparisons between black hatters and terrorists. There are obviously important distinctions here, and line-blurring, but there it is.) Or, on the other hand, we might soon be learning of an as-yet-unknown hacker entity that is making a run at Anonymous for public notoriety. Gulp.
The PlayStation Network currently has over 70 million users and is Sony’s online medium for its PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles. Both the Network, and Sony’s Qriocity music service were targeted. As stated previously, in its most recent blog post, Network spokespeople make no mention of how long the outage will continue, but it’s likely that it may take several more days to sort out. And this is after Sony posted yesterday saying that the outage may last for a “full day or two” — and after Amazon’s web and cloud services suffered from their own major outage.
At this point, the outage has lasted for over 48 hours and has become quite a disaster for Sony. (Or a “kerfuffle”, if you prefer a softer word.) Now, if this were in fact the result of denial-of-service attacks, it’s hard to place the blame entirely on Sony. Few networks can defend against large-scale DDoS attacks, which is, sadly, the point. That being said, the company has known since Wednesday night that there was an intrusion, so I find it odd that it would wait for two days to inform its users — and remove a post from its EU blog early Thursday saying that the outage is a result of “targeted behaviour by an outside party”.
All in all, the company’s public relations strategy is, at the least, very confusing. While it’s true that millions of gamers are being inconvenienced and are being forced offline, sure, it’s certainly not the end of the world. But, both for the sake of the company — and its users — a higher frequency of communication and level of transparency has to be achieved. In today’s world, a company can’t allow its official Twitter streams (@Playstation has nearly 800K followers) to go without an update for 24 hours. Especially when 70 million people are affected.
So, for everyone’s sake, I hope the Network can get up and running before this turns into the longest widespread network outage (due to hacking) in recent memory. If it isn’t already.
We will update this post over the weekend as we learn more. Stay tuned.

[biffo1]

i belive its all geo hotz mates that have hacked sony in retaliation to him being sued by them

[WRATH OF BOD]

My Kids Are Still Doing My Head In

[liveseytowers]

My Kids Are Still Doing My Head In

Trade it in for a 360

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[Sanj[UK]]

It's all the fucks on the rebug cfw. That pos gives access to the PSN equivalent of partnernet and some other network i cant remember the name of.

[WRATH OF BOD]

Trade it in for a 360

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bin there, done that,
i prefer PS3

[jamie_h88]

Still no psn gay as fuck. First time in ages I have had a few days of work

[Flat]

really well done sony .... learn to maintain your servers ...

[crack_it]

got a ps3 at xmas sold both my 360s now this wanna get online with cod i got a week off work any news on what they actually did to it

[Flat]

nope

[SiE]

The old PSN has gone and they are rebuilding a new one apparently. Could take some time.

[liveseytowers]

This is starting to annoy me now. The online races in GT5 don't work now and this is how I make my money. I've spanked it all on drift cars so need to earn some more. I know PSN is free but you kind of pay for it as you buy games with online content so you've paid for it in a sense.

[yankee]

I'm so gutted Got all week off and just bought a 50 inch 3d plasma!

[Over Carl]

I'm not even certain where my ps3 is. Still haven't got over last holiday's disappointment that was GT5.