Image via CrunchBaseSony has finally restored its long-suspended PlayStation Network service, at least to the players of United States and Europe. The service was resorted on this Sunday, putting an end to an almost thirty-day service outage after one of the largest security breach of all times, which compromised personal information of over 100 million online users. The service is only partially restored as only limited functions have been activated like online gaming, chat and music streaming services. Sony has announced that it is aiming to restore the PlayStation Network completely to the situation it was before the attack, before June, 2011.
On Sunday Sony began its phased restoration of Qriocity movie and music services too, which share the music and movie on the PlayStation Network's server, informed the Sony’s spokesperson, Satoshi Fukuoka. He also added that the similar limited services will very soon be online in all; Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the Middle East. After which only Asia will be left behind, which Sony states will be restored soon after that.
The theft of the accounts on Sony's PlayStation network included not only personal data, but also the credit card numbers. It was once again declared on Sunday that company has still not received any kind of report regarding the stolen information, especially the credit card information, to be used illegally. Kazuo Hirai, the C.E.O. of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation video game unit, gave a media release stating that Sony has improved its security measures intensely. He claimed that this time the customer’s personal data will be protected very cautiously, along with his "sincere regret" for the past incident and any inconvenience caused by it.
The currently restored service, which is yet limited, still lets the players interact in online video games and online chat, however, Sony reported that consumers will not be able to buy new video games or other content by using credit cards at the moment. Hirai stated that "While we understand the importance of getting our services back online, we did not rush to do so at the expense of extensively and aggressively testing our enhanced security measures.”
Overall out of the 100 million user worldwide user, Sony claims that almost 92 million users have now this limited access to the PlayStation network service enabled. Once again the Sony spokesman, Sosuke Kamei, dodged the questions regarding the internal investigations of the hack attack, though he confirmed that the company is at its toes to find out more about those responsible behind the attack.
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