PSN restoration in progress. NA, EU, and Middle East is back. [Updated]
PSN was down for over two weeks, but finally Sony restored the online services of PSN yesterday gradually through the whole US, and also on the international market. Right now PSN should be up and running throughout the whole world already. There is, of course, the mandatory system update to v3.61, and will prompt you to change your PlayStation Network password.
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Update: 24 hours has passed since Sony started the staged-restoration of their PSN, but it seemed that Japan and most part of Asia hasn’t got their PSN back online. Apparently Japanese regulatory watchdogs have not given the final go-ahead to Sony for the restoration of the services in the country on grounds of niggling doubts over network security.
“As of May 13, Sony was incomplete in exercising measures that they said they will do on the May 1 press conference,” Kazushige Nobutani, the director of Japan’s Media and Content Industry department at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said, according to the Australian.
“There were similar cases in the past that were caused by other firms, and we are asking Sony whether their measures are good enough when compared to countermeasures taken in the past,” Nobutani said.
Sony has assured ample security measures will be put in place to prevent a repeat of the massive data breach it suffered in the PlayStation network in April.
“We are taking aggressive action at all levels to address the concerns that were raised by this incident, and are making consumer data protection a full-time, company wide commitment,” the company said in a statement as it announced partial, phased restoration of the network in the U.S. and Europe.
It is hoped that Sony would be able to announce that PSN outage in Japan is over as they wind up talks with the Japanese authorities.
“We are still in talks with various authorities (in Japan and Asia),” spokeswoman Kumie Tanaka said. Sony has said it expects to complete the restoration process in all countries by May 31 and that it plans to work it out on a country-by-country basis.
