Six days after Sony first announced that its Playstation Network had been experiencing difficulties, the network remains down.
Sony shut down both its PSN and Qriocity services last Wednesday after an “external intrusion.” The company has not given any indication as to when the network, which connects more than 70 million users for multi-player games, might be running again.
“Unfortunately, I don’t have an update or timeframe to share at this point in time,” reads the latest update from spokesman Patrick Seybold on the Playstation Blog.
Last Thursday, the same blog had cautioned that “it may be a full day or two” before the network was restored.
Angry Playstation users vented their woes on Twitter and on Playstation’s Facebook page, where each of three posts about the outage has accumulated more than 20,000 comments. Many threatened to buy a Microsoft Xbox, mentioned how bored they were without PSN, asked Sony to be more transparent about its rebuilding process or expressed anger at the hackers who allegedly attacked the network.
Some suspected that Hactivist group Anonymous was responsible. The group had previously targeted Sonyafter the company filed a lawsuit against George Hotz, a 21-year-old hacker who unlocked the PlayStation 3′s operating system.
In order to ensure the network’s integrity, Sony wrote that it is rebuilding both services. Investigations into whether users’ personal information, including credit card numbers, were compromised in the attack are still ongoing, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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