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On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, the PlayStation Network was shut down. Sony said the move was for maintenance and that the outage would only last a day or two. Nearly one week later, the company announced that the closure was due to a hacker infiltrating the system and stealing PlayStation 3 and PSP players’ personal information. It’s still unknown if the information seized includes the credit card numbers of it’s 77 million PSN subscribers.<\/p>\n

Here’s what we know so far on the outage:<\/p>\n

4\/24\/2011: Sony Rebuilding PlayStation Network<\/a><\/p>\n

4\/30\/2011: Kaz Hirai to Address Media Tonight on PSN Breach<\/a><\/p>\n

5\/1\/2011: Free Subscription To PSN Plus from Welcome Back Program<\/a><\/p>\n

5\/4\/2011: Sony Responds to U.S. Congress<\/a><\/p>\n

5\/6\/2011: PSN Restoration is Almost Finished<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow @Shockya<\/a> on twitter for the latest on the PSN outage.<\/p>\n

By Brent Butler<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, the PlayStation Network was shut down. Sony said the move was for maintenance and that the outage would only last a day or two. 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