The end is nigh? The end is here!

Desire.

Probably won't be tomorrow (well, today now) so.

I'd say it will be back before the end of the week.

Leeg17

Looks like it will be back sooner rather than later according to this article:

Dear Friends,

I know this has been a frustrating time for all of you.
Let me assure you that the resources of this company have been focused on investigating the entire nature and impact of the cyber-attack we’ve all experienced and on fixing it. We are absolutely dedicated to restoring full and safe service as soon as possible and rewarding you for your patience. We will settle for nothing less.
To date, there is no confirmed evidence any credit card or personal information has been misused, and we continue to monitor the situation closely. We are also moving ahead with plans to help protect our customers from identity theft around the world. A program for U.S. PlayStation Network and Qriocity customers that includes a $1 million identity theft insurance policy per user was launched earlier today and announcements for other regions will be coming soon.
As we have announced, we will be offering a “Welcome Back” package to our customers once our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are up and running. This will include, among other benefits, a month of free PlayStation Plus membership for all PSN customers, as well as an extension of subscriptions for PlayStation Plus and Music Unlimited customers to make up for time lost.
As a company we — and I — apologize for the inconvenience and concern caused by this attack. Under the leadership of Kazuo Hirai, we have teams working around the clock and around the world to restore your access to those services as quickly, and as safely, as possible.
I know some believe we should have notified our customers earlier than we did. It’s a fair question. As soon as we discovered the potential scope of the intrusion, we shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and hired some of the best technical experts in the field to determine what happened. I wish we could have gotten the answers we needed sooner, but forensic analysis is a complex, time-consuming process. Hackers, after all, do their best to cover their tracks, and it took some time for our experts to find those tracks and begin to identify what personal information had — or had not — been taken.
As a result of what we discovered we notified you of the breach. Our investigation is ongoing, and we are upgrading our security so that if attacks like this happen again, our defenses will be even stronger.
In the last few months, Sony has faced a terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan. But now we are facing a very man-made event – a criminal attack on us — and on you — and we are working with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies around the world to apprehend those responsible.
In the coming days, we will restore service to the networks and welcome you back to the fun. I wanted to personally reach out and let you know that we are committed to serving you to the very best of our ability, protecting your information better than ever, and getting you back to what you signed up for – all the games and great entertainment experiences that you expect from Sony.
With best regards,
Howard Stringer

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See what you started Ade.. :rolleyes: Ultimate trend setter or what?

GEasy

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GEasy

I envisioned the future . If that's a word

krudler

LakesKeane wrote: »

I envisioned the future . If that's a word

Its a perfectly cromulent word

gimli2112

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man

Duff

gimli2112 wrote: »

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man

Please god let PSN come back online soon, I'm starting to learn!! :eek:

Dead Kennedys

Apology from Sony's Sir Howard Stringer..."As a company we - and I - apologize for the inconvenience and concern caused by this attack,"

Inconvenience and concern you say, try cold turkey, get your finger out!!!!


http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/playstation-hack-sir-howard-stringer-apologises-2640015.html

Balfie

just read that sony have said, that they took down 2500 details of people from a website, an that they have delayed the restart of Psn, last sunday it was said to be back within the week, but today they say, ''we don't have a time frame''

Desire.

Balfie wrote: »

just read that sony have said, that they took down 2500 details of people from a website, an that they have delayed the restart of Psn, last sunday it was said to be back within the week, but today they say, ''we don't have a time frame''

Source?

Balfie

its on the news on RTE.ie I'm on my phone so can't link.

Magill

meh... aww well... i've a **** load of work to do next week anyway so its not the end of the world

Nuri Sahin

I just want to play FIFA Club more so than anything, for a night or maybe two and I'll be grand after that for awhile. Need my fix.

Flecktarn

El LoCo Ade wrote: »

I just want to play FIFA Club more so than anything, for a night or maybe two and I'll be grand after that for awhile. Need my fix.

For me I miss my FIFA Ultimate Team tbh, I can still access it online but not being able to play is a kick in the balls.

matt-dublin

Balfie wrote: »

its on the news on RTE.ie I'm on my phone so can't link.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0507/sony.html

The Radiator

Flecktarn wrote: »

For me I miss my FIFA Ultimate Team tbh, I can still access it online but not being able to play is a kick in the balls.

How do you mean you can access it online? on the EA website?

Magill

The Radiator wrote: »

How do you mean you can access it online? on the EA website?

Think ultimate team is the card game thing for fifa, guess he can buy/sell players on his PC.

The Radiator

Yeah it is, I didn't know you could access it through PC

Nuri Sahin

Flecktarn wrote: »

For me I miss my FIFA Ultimate Team tbh, I can still access it online but not being able to play is a kick in the balls.

Have you played career at all? My god is it

I tried playing career throughout last week, playing as Bilbao. My god was it dull for large parts. My manager seemingly was trying to kill me. I had like no energy after the first 30 mins ffs lol! He kept on saying before every match I know your fatigued but I have to play you.

I had to purposely get myself sent off a couple of times so to get a break and my fitness levels up again before playing some of the big teams :pac:

The Floyd p

Can't get on my Ultimate team because my bro is on the Xbox.

My UT is

Cech

Sagna
Ivanovic
Vermaelen
Cole

Malouda
VDV
Y.Toure
Walcott

Berbatov
Bent

Dismantled my old team, containing the likes of Hulk, Aguero and Lopez to make it.

Nuri Sahin

The Floyd p wrote: »

Can't get on my Ultimate team because my bro is on the Xbox.

My UT is

Cech

Sagna
Ivanovic
Vermaelen
Cole

Malouda
VDV
Y.Toure
Walcott

Berbatov
Bent

Dismantled my old team, containing the likes of Hulk, Aguero and Lopez to make it.

Must. Not. Ban.

The Floyd p

I paid 3.3K for Hulk and eventually sold him for 2.6K
I got Aguero in a gold pack
Lopez was 1500 I think.

Ade, my old team was

Lloris

Fanni
Cetin
Juan
Maxwell

Fernando
Hulk
Michel Bastos
Gourcuff

Aguero
Higuain/Lopez

Well, it's been fun

See ya'll in a month (is that how long the ban will be?)

Nuri Sahin

The Floyd p wrote: »

I paid 3.3K for Hulk and eventually sold him for 2.6K
I got Aguero in a gold pack
Lopez was 1500 I think.

Ade, my old team was

Lloris

Fanni
Cetin
Juan
Maxwell

Fernando
Hulk
Michel Bastos
Gourcuff

Aguero
Higuain/Lopez

Well, it's been fun

See ya'll in a month (is that how long the ban will be?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgoXUzIwXk0

Flecktarn

El LoCo Ade wrote: »

Have you played career at all? My god is it

I tried playing career throughout last week, playing as Bilbao. My god was it dull for large parts. My manager seemingly was trying to kill me. I had like no energy after the first 30 mins ffs lol! He kept on saying before every match I know your fatigued but I have to play you.

I had to purposely get myself sent off a couple of times so to get a break and my fitness levels up again before playing some of the big teams :pac:

Jesus sounds like a nightmare! Personally I have never touched career mode but a lot of my friends love it. They say if you put time into it it really pays off and i quite rewarding.

I tried it and was like:

Kenno90