Sony has finally come clean regarding when they will get the Playstation Network back online, and it's as we predicted - the end of the month, May 31st to be exact.
But we wouldn’t be surprised if it goes on for even longer, there’s no doubt that Sony won’t bring it back online unless it’s certain it can repel further attacks.
Yesterday Sony issued a statement saying that the date suggested by Bloomberg originally was way off the mark.
But in true Sony fashion they've back-tracked and conceded that they are aiming to have the service up and running for May 31st.
Shigenori Yoshida comments follow an official blog post over the weekend which confirmed that Sony had missed its initial deadline of partially restoring the service by the end of last week. Sony said, "”We won’t restore the services until we can test the system’s strength."
In an address to the US Congress about the matter, Sony said it was still in the dark about the identities of the hackers that infiltrated the PSN, and stole the personal and financial data of its users.
The Tokyo based tech-giant is even considering offering a reward to anyone with information which could help unveil the hackers responsible for the unprecedented PlayStation Network security breach, which could have affected 100 million users.
Shares in Sony have fallen 2.3 per cent, and were down more than 4 per cent since the downtime – meaning Sony’s market value has been seriously diminished since PSN-gate.
In a bid to restore confidence to online users of the Playstation Network, Sony has revealed that it will insure each user for losses up to the value of $1 million.
The company has also stated that it is in talks with it’s own insurers to help pay costs associated with the security breach, with some experts believing payouts could add up to billions of dollars.
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If this keeps on going, then PS will lose most of its users and it will become the least most played console in the world!