If you’ve not known, Sony’s online portal the PSN for the PlayStation 3, where players get to connect online and play multiplayer with everyone else, has been down on April 19^th. At first, Sony did not comment on the issue, but later on stated that the PSN outage was caused by “malicious actions”.

Yes, the PSN was attacked by hackers, and thus far we’ve received unconfirmed news that this might be caused by a group called ‘Anonymous’, which backs Wikileak and Julian. Of course, this is just speculations.

Sony UK has mentioned that all information of PSN and Qriocity users have been obtained, including your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date, but they still can’t confirm the state of the breach, and that they are working with outside experts to “understand the scope of the breach” before posting the full lowdown earlier today. For those interested, Sony has a lengthy FAQ page regarding this incident.

Sony’s failure to report the status of the breach has caused Connecticut Senator Blumenthal very angry about the situation, “demanding answers” from SCEA president Jack Tretton.

Here’s what Sony UK indicates was exposed:

• Name
• Shipping address
• Billing address
• Country
• E-mail address
• Birthdate
• PSN/Qriocity ID
• PSN/Qriocity password
• PSN/Qriocity security question and answer
• Purchase history

SOURCE via PlayStation Blog