Sony Begin Restoration of PlayStation services

Sony has begun restoring the Playstation network. The restoration will begin in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. This comes after a down time of 3 weeks due to a security breach.  Users will be required to change their password upon signing in.  

According to a press release services expected to return are:

• sign-in for PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, including the resetting of passwords

• Restoration of online game-play across PS3 and PSP

• Playback rental video content, if within rental period, of PlayStation Network Video Delivery Service on PS3, PSP and MediaGo

• Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity, for current subscribers, on PS3 and PC

• Access to 3rd party services such as Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and MLB.tv

• 'Friends' category on PS3, including Friends List, Chat Functionality, Trophy Comparison, etc
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 See the press release here.

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PlayStation Network and Quirocity services will resume this week

Sony revealed on their blog that they would be rolling out PlayStation network and Quirocity services in the upcoming week. A press conference took place in Tokyo   this morning and a press release is being distributed worldwide. They went on to thank everyone for their patience; the roll out of services will begin regionally. Users will be greeted with a mandatory update which will require users to change their password. At the press conference Kaz Hirai offered his apologies for the outage and also said that the PlayStation store would not be up and instead would be back up within a month. Approximately 10 million credit card numbers may have fallen into the hands of the hackers, 1/10 of the people that use the PlayStation network.  The motive behind the attack is still unclear.