PSN is back online in Europe, South America and the Middle East
Just some half hour ago, according to the official tweet from Playstation. Sony is starting to work on the restoration of certain services of PSN in UK, Ireland and the Middle East. has finished working on restoring PSN back online in Whole Europe, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South America .
For the folks new to this news. Sony today released a new firmware update for the PS3, this update was numbered 3.61 and it required the user to change password upon installing it and then logging on PSN. This was a mandatory update, every PS3 user must update in order to enjoy the return of PSN. The password change was necessary as an added layer of security. PSN breach happened last month in which millions of PSN accounts were compromised. Their info was presumed to be stolen and Sony shutdown PSN in order to update its security.
Sony has already partially restored PSN service in USA. There is no Playstation Store or Hulu as of yet, they will be back soon though, 100% functionality will return until 31st may. Follow the EU Playstation Twitter Feed to get up-to-date with the latest restored regions.
Update:
EU Playstation Blog has posted this guide on how to change password. Check it out here(Note: The site appear to be under maintenance, wait for some time until is is online).
Update 2:
Service to be resumed now in Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and South America.
Source: Playstation EU Twitter Feed
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