Playstation Network Maintenance Today

No, they weren’t hacked again (though their servers were used to host some phishing sites). The downtime today is actual scheduled maintenance, we can only hope that it’s to get the store up and running at 100%. The blog post stated that today will not be the day for that though, a pity as it it holding up all manner of game reviews as well as purchasing and of course the Welcome Back program goodies for everyone. Here’s Sony’s note on today’s maintenance.

PlayStation Network is scheduled to undergo maintenance today, from about 8am until approximately 5pm Pacific time. During this time, registration and Account Management will be inaccessible, including the password reset process. While some users may experience difficulty signing in to PSN, the majority of consumers will be able to play online as well as sign in to external sites that require PSN authentication (like this one).

For those asking about the PlayStation Store, we’re still targeting restoration of all services by the end of this month. Contrary to reports, the Store will not be publishing today.

Stay tuned to the PlayStation Twitter feed for updates and a notice when maintenance has concluded.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The end of the month is rapidly approaching and from the sounds of it, the Playstation Store might not see it. But they are surely working as hard and as fast as they can to return it to normal operations and make it secure and safe.