PSN hacked again!?!...Not realy.

If you tried to enter PSN and saw the above picture I am pretty sure you just whispered or yelled out loud in agony "Not again!". Well we all got a little scared about it being almost convinced that we would never again play online games on PSN. As it turns out we were all going crazy over nothing since it was just a mistake that could if exploited in malicious manner lead to a new leak of personal information. The mistake, being more of a miscalculation, was that you could still change your password by entering your date of birth and your email. Information only known to you.......and the hackers of course. This mistake lead to the PSN being down until the mistake was corrected. Fortunately for us Sony came across it quickly and before anyone could have access to our info again.

via: Engadget
Source: Nyleveia

PSN scheduled for partial restoration today.

As it turns out, yesterdays post about the PSN was only a few hours away from Sony's announcement that gave PSN life. It is not that "IT'S ALIVE..." but it is more than it is partially alive. By partially we mean for both location and services. So the services that are being restored are online gaming, friend chatting, video playback for already owned videos and some third party services like Hulu and Netflix.
As I mentioned above this restoration is partial in terms of location as well since it will be available in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand with Japan and the rest of Asia following by the end of the month.
So I wouldn't like to hold you any longer, you have some online gaming to do.

You can see the disasters timeline here.

Sources: Financial Times, PC World