Sony's PlayStation Network is back up and running today after a cyber attack caused a weekend-long outage. No user information was breached, according to a Reuters report.
In a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, hackers sent a crippling volume of traffic that effectively shut down the system. None of the 53 million PlayStation users' account information was compromised. On the PlayStation blog, Sony issued the following update: "We have seen no evidence of any intrusion to the network and no evidence of any unauthorized access to users' personal information."
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