*sigh*

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/02/so...redit-card-nu/

dunno if true or not.

Updated Info.

Apparently SONY is going to offer one free year of some sort of security software for all PSN users because of this latest intrusion!

May 6, 2011: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/...ection-scheme/

Always good to see a company man up when they mess up. This was a big one (mess up) on Sony's part and I'm glad to see they are giving something back to the people that trusted them with their secure information.

According to Sony PlayStation, they expect PSN services to start in a few days!

Here is the article: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/...meline-update/

That's what they've been saying since the beginning.

The said that last week and the week before and now and next week they will say they got hacked again its going to be an endless cycle untill they decide when to bring it back

I have to disagree with this. Sony has plenty of money to up their security for such information and even KEEP IT UPDATED, but they didn't. This is like saying "heeeeeeyyyyy buddddyyyy we lost your credit card information to someone trying to sell it, BUT WE ARE GONNA GIVE YOU THIS FREE T-SHIRT!" If what I read correctly they are offering a free year of some or of security you put on your PS3, then that means it will eventually start to be charged......why should a customer have to pay to have their information secured by a company offering online services? I mean if you had to pay for online service, it should come with it just like sony offered/will still offer free online gaming services.

I will be completely honest, they sued geohot who was against piracy and had his CFW designed so you could NOT use it for piracy. People were already working on CFW else where before his came out, but since he had it made already people just expanded upon it to make piracy happen. Why should he be held liable for what other people do with his free software? Why didn't sony attack the first person to come out with psp custom firmware? If sony stopped whining about being beat in the long run and actually stayed on their toes, they could have avoided all of these attacks.

At this point in time, they can update the keys for the ps3 all they want, but it will still always be jailbreak-able with every new firmware release, people have found everything they need and a hardware update is required to fix said issue. Also if sony plans to go to a paid online service, well they will probably lose that battle to microsoft. One of the biggest reasons people buy PS3's is the free online multiplayer. If that happens, people will most likely just switch to an xbox since to my knowledge microsoft has had downtime for their service, but no personal info has been stolen from their hands other then an incident with e-mails and addresses I believe once, but I am not sure it had anything to do with xbox or xbox live.

I don't think Sony will charge for online play.

They are already going to have to take their time winning back trust little by little.

I had just read a few things about them changing PSN all together for security and other reasons. I can honestly see them start charging for it since custom firmware will always allow people to pirate games, they gotta make up that loss some where else.