If you have a Playstation 3 then there’s no doubt you’ll have had trouble accessing the Live system for a while – mainly because it’s been down for what seems like forever! Sony said that it was going to be up over the weekend – which it wasn’t – now they’re saying that it’s going to be delayed even more. I think it’s crazy that such a big system and network has been down for so long. I understand the need for security but there must of been a HUGE fault in the network for it to take so long to fix.
For anyone who hasn’t seen the news, basically the network was hacked and the hackers made off with lots of data – including possibly credit card details – of millions of people. What’s annoyed people even more is that Sony have been so slow in reacting and seemed to deny the scale of the problem to start with, even though they must of known how bad it was.
According to Sony there has been no confirmed credit card data theft, but the fact that it’s “not confirmed” is hardly reassuring to people who have their details on the network. Luckily for me I also have an Xbox which hasn’t had any of these problems, although I think everyone is kidding themselves if they think that it couldn’t happen to Xbox Live too. Hopefully Microsoft will use this as a reason to improve their security if they haven’t already – I certainly won’t be trusting Sony with my details for a long time.