15 years ago today, the PlayStation Network went offline and didn’t come back for over 3 weeks
Fifteen years ago today, on April 20, 2011, Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) was taken offline due to a significant data breach affecting over 77 million accounts. The outage lasted for 24 days, preventing online play for games like Mortal Kombat 9 and Call of Duty. Sony eventually offered compensation, including free games and PlayStation Plus subscriptions, and later stated there was no confirmed misuse of compromised personal or financial information.
- Entities
- Company: Sony
- Game: Mortal Kombat 9
- Game: Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Topic: Cybersecurity
- Platform: PlayStation Network
- Topic: Online Gaming
- Platform: PlayStation 3
- Topic: Data Breach
- Game: Call of Duty
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