Playstation Network Back Online 22 Hours Later

23 hours ago, The PlayStation Network went offline, causing massive panic among the Gaming Community with a vague acknowledgment from Sony on their Ask PlayStation Twitter account. Now, it looks to be back up, bringing relief to Playstation 4 and Playstation 5 gamers.

According to the latest Status Report, it shows all services are back up and running once again without any explanation of why it went down in the first place from Sony, who confirmed that the network was back online.

Yesterday, their status website mentioned that the network outage began around 7 PM EST yesterday, but user reports started spiking on Downdetector about an hour earlier at around 6 PM ET, with comments ranging around the 9k mark, while Reddit’s r/PlayStation thread has already over 7k comments regarding the Network Outage. This wasn’t the first time that it has happened. In April 2011, hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Sony’s network infrastructure, shutting down the PlayStation Network (PSN) for 23 days. The attack exposed the personal information of an estimated 77 million users, including names, birthdays, email addresses, passwords, and security questions. Credit card details may have also been compromised. Sony downplayed the outage and estimated it would last for one to two days. In March 2024, the PlayStation network was down for several hours due to a partial outage, and then happened once again seven months later when the network went down for 8 hours.

Source: Ask PlayStation

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