On Sunday, Sony announced that all PlayStation Plus subscribers will be granted an extra five days of service following a significant outage of the PlayStation Network (PSN) that lasted approximately 18 hours over the weekend.
The company issued an apology through a post on X, stating, “Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue. We apologise for the inconvenience and thank the community for their patience.” However, they did not elaborate on the specifics of what caused the disruption.
The outage, which started late Friday, prevented users from signing into their accounts, playing online games, or accessing the PlayStation Store. By Saturday evening, Sony confirmed that the PSN had been restored to full functionality.
The PlayStation Network is crucial to Sony’s gaming operations, serving millions of users across the globe.
According to Downdetector.com, a site that monitors service outages, the peak impact of the outage saw approximately 7,939 users in the United States and around 7,336 users in the United Kingdom unable to access the service on Saturday afternoon.
Sony has a history of handling outages, with more serious incidents occurring in the past. In 2014, a cyberattack temporarily took the PlayStation Network offline for several days during the crucial holiday shopping season. In another major incident in 2011, a security breach exposed personal information of nearly 77 million users, resulting in a month-long shutdown and subsequent regulatory scrutiny.
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