Sony has said the 24-hour outage that knocked out PlayStation Network over the weekend was due to an “operational issue.” In a tweet confirming the recovery of its network services ...

PSN is back online after a 24 hour outage, almost to the minute, the longest since the nearly month-long downtime after a hack back in 2011. Now, Sony is announcing the compensation that players ...

Now, there's no evidence that such an event has happened here as of writing, but it's clear the ghost of the PS3-era hack still haunts the company somewhat. For what it's worth, even if no ...

Play any good games this weekend? For a lot of players on PlayStation, the answer is an emphatic “no,” thanks to a nearly 24-hour PlayStation Network outage that left even single-player games ...

Because the duration of the interrupted service recalled the infamous PSN outage of 2011 which arose from a malicious hack, some fans were worried that something similar might have happened this ...

There wasn't a mention of a hack, a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, or something else. Sony is adding five days of service to PlayStation Plus members with an active subscription as ...

The lack of transparency has sparked speculation, with some users questioning whether a hack could be responsible. While PlayStation did previously suffer a breach in 2011, which kept PSN down for a ...

The PSN hack of 2011 is still fresh in the memory of some gamers. Photo by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images. “Given what happened in 2011 we need to know if we need to call our banks ...