IGN has been monitoring the community response. Considering the Great PSN Outage of '11, which compromised around 77 million user accounts, it would be nice to know if this was the work of an outside actor, at the very least. All we know is that the outage occurred due to an "operational issue," which means what exactly?

Sony said on Sunday that all PlayStation Plus members would automatically receive an additional five days of service, after a global outage disrupted the PlayStation Network (PSN) for about 18 hours on Friday and Saturday.

FOLLOWING the worldwide outage that stopped users from playing online, PlayStation has issued a response and made a free offer to those affected. Millions of users struggled to access their

The PlayStation Network, which connects people while playing games online on Sony PlayStation game systems, experienced outages Friday night and remained offline for many users at about 3 p.m. ET on Saturday.

Companies in the subscription business collect and store tons of customers data to personalize experiences, which makes them prime target for cyberattacks.

PlayStation Network was hit with an outage and remained offline for many users through most of Saturday leaving them frustrated.

Sony blamed an operational issue for the 20-hour service outage, which affected console gamers on the PlayStation Network over the weekend.

Unlike many of you, I didn’t realise that PlayStation Network was down for nearly a full day this weekend, because I was touching grass. On Saturday morning Singapore time, a friend complained to me that he hadn’t been able to play Marvel Rivals on his PS5 because of a PSN outage – on Sunday morning,