Sony may offer users some form of compensation for the outage, now in its 8th day, of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services, its U.S. unit said late Thursday.
The two networks were taken offline by the company after it discovered they had been hacked. Sony subsequently said personal information on some of its 77 million registered account holders had been stolen. It also said credit card numbers could have been stolen, but an ongoing investigation had uncovered no evidence of that so far.
On Thursday, in the latest of a series of postings to its PlayStation Blog, the company said compensation is being considered.
"We are currently evaluating ways to show appreciation for your extraordinary patience as we work to get these services back online," it said.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/226674/
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The two networks were taken offline by the company after it discovered they had been hacked. Sony subsequently said personal information on some of its 77 million registered account holders had been stolen. It also said credit card numbers could have been stolen, but an ongoing investigation had uncovered no evidence of that so far.
On Thursday, in the latest of a series of postings to its PlayStation Blog, the company said compensation is being considered.
"We are currently evaluating ways to show appreciation for your extraordinary patience as we work to get these services back online," it said.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/226674/
