It?s been about 72 hours and the Playstation Network is still down. Sony has confirmed that the outage is due to one or more hackers attacking the system. In a statement from Sony?s Patrick Seybold he states this:
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.
Funny enough since they have been attacked, who knows what has actually happened as far as what hackers have been able to get. We all know this stems from Sony taking a strong stand on piracy of their games and maybe taking it a bit too far by trying to get the isp who hit the site to few how to mod the PS3 to play pirated games. It looks like Sony hit a big button with the hacker community by not just going after the person who created the hack but the people who just viewed it! If this gets worse and it affects people by their credit cards becoming compromised and such, I wonder if the people could have a case against Sony, cause as we all know Sony seems to love a good litigation.