This past weekend, the PlayStation Network went down for close to 24 hours, ruining many people's gaming plans and bringing back memories of the 2011 network outage that compromised many users' personal information.
The online services should all be sorted now, though it is still weird that Sony never addressed the issues aside from one single tweet.
Sony Remains Vague What Caused The PlayStation Network Outage
Over on Twitter/X, Sony apologized for the inconvenience of the server outage, though only mentioned "operational issue" as the problem. 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 compensation.
"Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience. All PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive an additional 5 days of service," the full message reads.
The compensation isn't bad, given that it's like a 500% payment for the downtime. That said, I do want to know more about what caused it. I'm really hoping it wasn't an attack or anything, since that might mean our personal data...
