Over the weekend, Sony began a phased restoration of service for the PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) website following the massive data breaches affecting 100 million customers.
In response to the data breaches announced last month and early this month, Sony shutdown the PSN, Qriocity music services, and the SOE site to investigate the breach and make security enhancements.The service restoration is being phased in by region, with the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East coming online first. Phased restoration in Japan and other Asian countries and regions will be announced later. The company expects to have the services fully restored by the end of May.
For PSN and Qriocity the first phase includes: sign-in for PSN and Qriocity services, including the resetting of passwords; restoration of online game-play across PS3 and PSP; playback rental video content of PSN video delivery service on PS3, PSP and MediaGo; Music Unlimited offered by Qriocity, for current subscribers, on PS3 and PC; access to third party services such as Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and MLB.tv; friends category on PS3, including Friends List, Chat Functionality, Trophy Comparison, etc.; and PlayStation Home. Read More
