During the evening of Apr. 20, the Playstation Network (PSN) went down for “maintenance” and was expected to come back within one to two days. But little did 77 million people know, the outage would last for at least the next two weeks.
On Apr. 23, Sony made a statement saying that the outage was due to “an external intrusion on our system.” Sony revealed later that week that the personal information of over 70 million users might have been taken. Sony later revealed that files containing credit card information had indeed been encrypted.
This outage has brought a lot of unwelcome change to many users worldwide, including students at Langley. “It’s unacceptable. Sony should have been prepared for something like this,” said junior Kevin McCormick.
But some, however, don’t mind this change as much, saying that it couldn’t have come at a better time. “It gave me more time to focus on AP exams,” said junior Alex Yoon.
This recent intrusion was unwelcome to a majority of the dedicated gamers and the possible perpetrator(s) continue to remain under speculation. Playstation Network services are expected to resume by May 31.