Sony's Biggest PlayStation Store is Back Online
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 June 2011 07:10
As Sony's PlayStation Store was destroyed by a hacker which affected more than 100 million gamers six weeks ago, it is now back to life again in Europe and the US.
The Japanese biggest electronics affirmed on Thursday that it has reclaimed access to the PlayStation.com/psn/store/" title="Sony PlayStation Store">PlayStation Store in all markets apart from Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan.
After the hacker attack on 20 April, Sony was obliged to shut down its PlayStation Network which is known as the biggest in internet history. Around 100 million online gamers were affected badly by the Computer Hackers breaking into the PlayStation Network and stealing personal dater which included names, e-mail addresses and some credit card numbers.
Regardless of being in a reduced form on 16 May, the network which lets gamers to play mostly against each other was reopened.
Nick Caplin who is the leader of communications for Sony PlayStation, announced on the company's official blog on Thursday: "I'm happy to affirm that PlayStation Store is open and you can now download content and reinstate voucher codes. We will update you with the full lists of new content available to PlayStation Network members and PlayStation Plus subscribers here on the PlayStation. Blog in the next few hours."
There is a "Welcome Back" gift to PlayStation gamers which is in the "final stages of testing" and will be available "very soon", Caplin added.
Sony has been criticized badly for the way it reacted to the hacker attack that shook the electronics giant. The company delayed notifying customers of the security breach until 26 April – regardless of the fact that the investigation into the attack began on 19 April.
Sony's chief executive Sir Howard Stringer, made reprisals on the critics of the company in May. "This was a situation that we have never came across before," he said. "Most companies do not report these kinds of breaches anyway. If they do report such breaches, 43% of companies do this within a month, whereas we reported it in a week. You are telling me my week was not fast enough?"
Sony presumes getting back to normal from the attack will cost around $173 million (£105m), meanwhile its share price has reduced down to almost 10% since PlayStation Network was shutdown last month.
