Sony has announced that Playstation Network services will begin to come back online this week, about two weeks after a malicious intrusion resulted in the system being taken offline. Access to multiplayer gaming will be restored first, followed by services such as account access and downloadable games. Although credit card information that may have been stolen should have been encrypted, it's still a good idea to change any passwords you shared between PSN and other sites. The restored network will also have additional security enhancements to protect against further intrusions, and details on "welcome back" freebies are in the works. Don't forget that the Wing Commander Movie and WC4 are available to purchase! -- Original update published on May 1, 2011
I feel badly about the PSN outage and about how Sony has handled it (certainly my credit card is in there)... but at the same time I can't help but think that if it weren't Sony then it would be Microsoft or Amazon or some other big company that would affect us in exactly the same way--so I have trouble claiming some grand victory as a (mostly) Xbox-playing dude.
