(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Nearly three weeks after pulling the plug on the PlayStation Network, Sony says it plans to have its online systems fully back online by May 31. Tokyo-based spokesman Shigenori Yoshida told Bloomberg that Sony is in the process of improving its security system and aims to have the service fully restored by the end of the month.

The revised deadline comes after Sony missed its initial target date last week; on April 27, the company said it expected "to have some services up and running within a week from yesterday". If Sony resumes PSN service on May 31, the global outage will have lasted six weeks in total.

Sony took the PSN offline on April 20 after the service was hacked, compromising the personal data and account details of millions of users. It formally owned up to the network intrusion and potential data theft some days later, and later still confirmed to Congress that data had indeed been stolen from all 77 million PSN accounts. The firm is currently investigating the hack with the aid of Homeland Security, the FBI, and external security firms, and has outlined user compensation packages including identity theft protection scheme memberships and free games.

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There is no need to flame me for sharing this! This is just something I read!!!

YOU KNOW WHAT?

At this point who the helll even cares when the PSN comes back up? might as welll be another 3 months...

They can give us all the apologies they wish and perks like the lame PSN+ and the Qriocity non sense. At the end of the day, all we want is some DECENT SECURITY & CUSTOMER SERVICE & the RESPECT us the CONSUMERS deserve....

all we want is to be ONLINE... otherwise, other than the blu ray player, with out PSN access, the PS3 will be USELESS to us and a big paper weight..... especially if you have the FAT PS3....LOL

The online play will be on before

i doubt it

We all know Sony just a big a** procrastinator but hey i know it taken along time but look at the bright side the services will be better & safer, last but not least its still free unlike sh*tbox-LOL

What the flying **** another?
Read the subforum, it's spread with this info.

:dumb: The online play is going to be before that and there main priority. Now stop crying and just wait. They have had to re-write the whole PSN security and do a new FW. These things take time.

lol another one of these, surely they'd know by now