Wednesday, April 20, 2011 is marked as a darkest day in the history of gaming, because on that day, Sony’s most admired PlayStation Network was attacked by a deadly cyber criminal force. The hackers caused heavy damage to the company and also affected 77 million PSN users by illegally obtaining their personal information.

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From the first day of intrusion till now, Geekword has been covering all the stories and updates on Sony attacks and PlayStation Network outage, and today we are going to present our coverage in the shape of story titles – this coverage will definitely give you an idea about how did it all begin and what steps Sony Corporation took in fixing all of these horrifying issues.

Below are the updates that we covered:

1 – When it all started: PSN, The PlayStation Network goes down.

2 – The news of notorious hactivist group behind Sony outage: Is Anonymous responsible for PSN outage.

3 – Three consecutive days of PSN outage: PlayStation Network remains down for Third Day.

4 – No restoration till one week: Anonymous attack left PSN down for One Week.

5 – Then there was this shocking news of PSN users personal information being exposed to hackers: PlayStation Network attack compromised Users Personal Information.

6 – On April 30, 2011 Sony poured some good news: Sony to restore some PSN services during this week.

7 – Sony found clues against Anonymous, but the group defended themselves: Sony confirms Anonymous involvement in PSN hack.

8 – Then suddenly Sony announced that it won’t be recovering the PlayStation Network: PSN won’t be restored this week.

9 – On May 9, 2011 we reported our readers that how PlayStation Network was attacked: This is how PSN was attacked.

10 – An update after 4 days of gap in which Sony failed to give an exact date on PSN restoration: Will PlayStation Network ever be restored?

11 – Finally on May 14, 2011 Sony announced that it has started restoring the PlayStation Network: PSN restoration has begun.

12 – Bloomberg shared an astonishing news that Amazon.com’s web services cloud-computing unit was used by hackers to attack Sony online entertainment systems: Hackers used Amazon Servers to Attack Sony PlayStation Network.

13 – On May 17th 2011 Geekword reported about Sony’s Welcome Back Program: Sony’s ‘Welcome Back’ program brings free game offers and other bonuses for restless PSN users.

14 – Gamasutra obtained a memo regarding PlayStation Store restoration: PlayStation Store will come back online on May 24th.

15 – Then there were these reports about hacking of Sony’s Thailand website on 21 May, 2011: Sony has been hacked again, Phishing site discovered on one of its servers.

16 – 24 May 2011 the day when Sony promised to restore its PlayStation Store, but failed: PSN is under scheduled maintenance and PlayStation Store will not be online today.

17 – On May 25, Sony detected security breach at one of its music entertainment unit in Greece: Sony has been hacked again.

18 – Again few hours back (29th May 2011) it was confirmed by some PlayStation users that PSN is down: PSN goes down again!.

19 – An official of Sony informed about PSN outage: Sony acknowledges the PSN outage.

20 – Latest reports from sources says: PSN is back online!.

The above posts cover all the information we have gathered regarding Sony attacks and PlayStation Network outage from April 20, 2011 till May 30, 2011 – we assure our readers that we will continue providing updates on Sony as soon as we catch more latest information on these hotly discussed topics.

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