14 DAY TRIAL // In between the massive problems with the PlayStation Network, which is still offline for over a week due to a hacker attack, Sony Online Entertainment revealed that the customer information for all of its MMO players wasn't affected by the attack.
Sony formally admitted yesterday that hackers might have stolen personal user data from its servers, including names and addresses or even credit card information.
This, as you can imagine, made a lot of PlayStation Network users extremely unhappy.
Thankfully, at least for those who played online games like Free Realms or DC Universe Online, Sony Online Entertainment, the company that is administrating them, revealed that the PSN data leak did not affect its own databases.
"We wanted to update you on the status of our examination of the SOE system intrusion we announced last week. We have been conducting a thorough investigation and, to the best of our knowledge, no customer personal information got out to any unauthorized person or persons," said SOE's director of global community relations, Linda Carlson, via CVG.
"We are continuing that investigation and monitoring the situation carefully; should the situation change, we will -- of course - promptly notify you."
Still, the outage does affect PlayStation 3 owners who wanted to play DC Universe Online or Free Realms because they can't log into their accounts.
In order to make it up to them, SOE will be hosting a wide array of special events this weekend or when the PlayStation Network finally comes back online.
"To thank players for their patience, we will be hosting special events this weekend across our game portfolio, including a Double Station Cash day on Saturday, April 30th," said Carlson.
"We're also working on a 'make good' plan for players of the PS3 versions of DC Universe Online and Free Realms. Details will be available soon on the individual game websites and forums."
Until the PSN is up and running, players can still experience the two MMOs on the PC.