(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Dear Friends,

I know this has been a frustrating time for all of you.

Let me assure you that the resources of this company have been focused on investigating the entire nature and impact of the cyber-attack we’ve all experienced and on fixing it. We are absolutely dedicated to restoring full and safe service as soon as possible and rewarding you for your patience. We will settle for nothing less.

To date, there is no confirmed evidence any credit card or personal information has been misused, and we continue to monitor the situation closely. We are also moving ahead with plans to help protect our customers from identity theft around the world. A program for U.S. PlayStation Network and Qriocity customers that includes a $1 million identity theft insurance policy per user was launched earlier today and announcements for other regions will be coming soon.

As we have announced, we will be offering a “Welcome Back” package to our customers once our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are up and running. This will include, among other benefits, a month of free PlayStation Plus membership for all PSN customers, as well as an extension of subscriptions for PlayStation Plus and Music Unlimited customers to make up for time lost.

As a company we — and I — apologize for the inconvenience and concern caused by this attack. Under the leadership of Kazuo Hirai, we have teams working around the clock and around the world to restore your access to those services as quickly, and as safely, as possible.

I know some believe we should have notified our customers earlier than we did. It’s a fair question. As soon as we discovered the potential scope of the intrusion, we shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and hired some of the best technical experts in the field to determine what happened. I wish we could have gotten the answers we needed sooner, but forensic analysis is a complex, time-consuming process. Hackers, after all, do their best to cover their tracks, and it took some time for our experts to find those tracks and begin to identify what personal information had — or had not — been taken.

As a result of what we discovered we notified you of the breach. Our investigation is ongoing, and we are upgrading our security so that if attacks like this happen again, our defenses will be even stronger.

In the last few months, Sony has faced a terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan. But now we are facing a very man-made event – a criminal attack on us — and on you — and we are working with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies around the world to apprehend those responsible.

In the coming days, we will restore service to the networks and welcome you back to the fun. I wanted to personally reach out and let you know that we are committed to serving you to the very best of our ability, protecting your information better than ever, and getting you back to what you signed up for – all the games and great entertainment experiences that you expect from Sony.

With best regards,
Howard Stringer

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They have never said they wold be back up in 1-2 days of in 3-4 weeks u dumbass

Thanks for info mate

Coming days, FFS Sony nice and specific, I'l be glad when this sh!t is over and done with.

Great post Thanks.

Lets hope coming days is tommorow

Sony is still vague, like always,
They never specify a particular date/time that is what kind of pisses me off,

Even if it's gonna take 2 weeks, if they MENTION the correct date that would be cool for me.

To Quote Bayside "Howard you a ten but I'm not sure this ends well". In my business i learned something really important. Under sell, over deliver. Sony said they hope all services are up buy the end of the month. The way iIsee it; If they don't have full PSN back by the end of the month then I will moan but as it stands right now everyone is getting super anxious (myself included) about getting back on but I have spent so much energy pacing back and forth on the net watching and waiting till it comes back up that I have miss opportunities to do something fun. So if it comes back sooner then awesome but if not I am gonna be fishing or mountain biking or something now that we have some awesome weather.