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10 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 07:17 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sony is planning to restore its online PlayStation Network (PSN) in full by the end of May.<\/p>\n

The company shut its online video game network on 20 April, after discovering a major security breach.<\/p>\n

Spokesman Satoshi Fukuoka admitted the company had missed a self-imposed deadline of restarting a partial service by the weekend.<\/p>\n

He said Sony continues to investigate the case, after personal details from 100 million accounts were compromised.<\/p>\n

The company had originally hoped to restart some of the services on the PSN last week.<\/p>\n

However, it then emerged that another large network – Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) – had also been compromised, potentially putting a further 25 million accounts at risk.<\/p>\n

This is in addition to the 77 million accounts hacked on the PSN.<\/p>\n

The discovery was a major set-back in the company’s attempts to get the networks up and running again.<\/p>\n

“We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers,” Sony’s Head of Communications Nick Caplin wrote in a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n

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I’m frustrated and upset by it\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

End Quote<\/span> Christian Svensson<\/span> Capcom<\/span><\/div>\n

“We are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system.”<\/p>\n

‘Frustrated and upset’<\/span><\/p>\n

The extended downtime is causing headaches for businesses which rely on the PSN as a key distributor of their content.<\/p>\n

Christian Svensson, Senior Vice-President of Capcom, shared his irritation with users on the Capcom-Unity forum.<\/p>\n

“I’m frustrated and upset by it for a number of reasons,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

“As an executive responsible for running a business, the resulting outage [is] obviously costing us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue that were planned for within our budget.<\/p>\n

“These are funds we rely on to bring new games to market for our fans.”<\/p>\n

He said the knock-on effect of the hack makes it “impossible to be sympathetic to their ’cause'”.<\/p>\n

War of words<\/span><\/p>\n

The latest announcement comes after a war of words with hacker group Anonymous over who is responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n

The collective has suffered its own hacking issues after one disgruntled user known as “Ryan” apparently attacked the Internet Relay Chat channel used by the group to co-ordinate its activities.<\/p>\n

A list of usernames and corresponding IP addresses has been published by “Ryan” on the AnonOps site.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the US Congress last week, Sony accused “leaderless” Anonymous of orchestrating a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack at the same time the data theft occured.<\/p>\n

Sony claimed a file planted on the network bore the trademark Anonymous “We are legion” slogan.<\/p>\n

The group retalliated, describing Sony as “incompetent”.<\/p>\n

“Whoever broke into Sony’s servers to steal the credit card info and left a document blaming Anonymous clearly wanted Anonymous to be blamed for the most significant digital theft in history,” the statement read<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last month, US lawyers filed a lawsuit against Sony for negligent protection of personal data and failure to inform players in a timely fashion that their credit card information may have been stolen.<\/p>\n

Mr Fukuoka declined to comment on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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