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Police arrest UK teenager in connection with PSN, Xbox Live hacking attacks

Posted on 17 January 2015

British Police have arrested an UK teenager in connection with the Lizard Squad hacking attacks that took down Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live over Christmas. The UK Police arrested the…

Sony woos outage affected PlayStation users with enticing offers

Posted on 2 January 2015

Sony, on Thursday, announced it is offering a 10 per cent discount on PlayStation Store purchases and 5 day extension to their PlayStation Plus subscription to make it up to millions of…

Microsoft Xbox Live and Sony PlayStation Network face outages on Christmas

Posted on 26 December 2014

Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network faced outages on the Christmas Eve following DDoS by a hacking group calling themselves the Lizard Squad. Microsoft acknowledged the disruption and posted a message…

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare pricing reduced on Sony PSN

Posted on 22 December 2014

Sony is offering Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for PS4 and PS3 at a reduced price as a part of its 12 Deals of Christmas. The eleventh in Sony’s 12 Deals of…

Sony denies PSN hack claims

Posted on 23 November 2014

Sony has outright denied recent reports of PlayStation Network hack claiming that the recent leaks of customer login credentials are fake. Reports started flowing in a couple of days back that a…

Sony Play Station Network to go under seven hour maintenance on Monday

Posted on 10 October 2014

Sony on Thursday announced the PlayStation Network will be down for an estimated seven hours on Monday, October 13 to undergo routine maintenance work. The routine maintenance is slated to take place…

Sony: No personal information accessed during PSN DDoS

Posted on 25 August 2014

The DDoS attack hit PSN just a day before it was supposed to be shut for a prescheduled maintenance.

PlayStation Network stutters; hacking collective takes DDoS responsibility

Posted on 24 August 2014

It seems that just before the network was supposed to go down for a planned maintenance, hackers have done the job for Sony.

Sony agrees to $15m settlement in 2011 PSN breach case

Posted on 24 July 2014

Sony will compensate PSN users in the form of free PS3 and PSP games, free PS3 themes, free subscriptions to PlayStation plus, free access to Music Unlimited and SOE Station cash.

Heads up: Sony PSN maintenance slated for today

Posted on 27 January 2014

This is just a reminder that Sony has announced a PlayStation Network downtime for today and it is expected to last six hours – that’s if everything goes as per plans. For…

Sony schedules six hour PSN maintenance window

Posted on 25 January 2014

Sony has announced a six hour PlayStation Network (PSN) downtime on January 27 to perform some mandatory network maintenance. For Europe the downtime is slated for 17:30 to 23:30 GMT and for…

Amazon launches UK PSN Store in beta

Posted on 11 December 2013

Amazon has launched PlayStation Network (PSN) store in the UK in beta mode, providing a welcome alternative to all those who are weary of entering their credit card details on Sony’s store….

Sony resets PSN passwords for some users, again

Posted on 7 December 2013

Sony has sent emails to multiple PSN users informing them that it has reset their passwords because of detection of irregular activity on PlayStation Network. The email, a copy of which was…

PSN update: Sony begins next phase of service roll-out as core network stabilizes

Posted on 1 December 2013

Sony has announced that the core network stability of PlayStation Network (PSN) is returning and will soon begin its next phase of service roll-out by reinstating one of PS4 PlayStation features –…

PSN buckles under heavy traffic; Sony disables ‘redeem voucher’ functionality

Posted on 30 November 2013

As anticipated, users are complaining about PSN log-in issues as the PlayStation Network seems to have been overwhelmed with the hundreds of thousands of users trying to log-on through their newly bought…

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