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Sony has finally revealed the extent of the recent "external intrusion" to the PlayStation Network and it is bound to upset countless users. Millions of users's names, addresses, billing information, credit card details and more were all exposed to hackers in this wide scale hack. As everyone knows by now, Sony responded to hacks by shutting down the PSN completely. Unfortunately, its come out that the hacks took place three days before the networks were shut down. Sony has also hired an external security firm to investigate the incident.
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More than 72 hours after it first went down, the PlayStation Network is still offline, annoying millions of loyal PlayStation 3 customers who can't play their games over the network. No Portal 2 co-op, no Mortal Kombatmatches, no Home. Your PlayStation 3 is offline. In an update over the weekend, Sony's Patrick Seybold confirmed that the outage is due to one or more hackers attacking the system. Here's the full statement.
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In an infographic that’s bound to cause arguments and perhaps fistfights, researchers at Hunch placed data from about 700,000 of its website visitors onto a deep illustration that shows just how different users of Macs and PCs are.
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Sony’s PlayStation Network, its online service for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles, suffered from a major outage today, which remains ongoing. According to Sony’sblog, the interruption in service may last into the long weekend — for at least another “full day or two”. The Sony Network currently has more than 70 million registered users, many of whom have taken to Twitter and other social networks to express their frustration over the prolonged downtime. Millions of unhappy gamers (and Netflix customers) a PlayStation outage makes.
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Modders and aspiring developers take note: Crytek has announced that it will be releasing a Crysis 2 content editor early this winter, and a full software development kit for CryENGINE 3 this August.
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