Playstation Network Still Down, Sony Clueless

Last week Sony's Playstation Network was the target of an external hacking attack and in response the company shut it down completely. Since then Sony has been tight lipped about not only the extent of the "intrusion" but also whether their customer's credit card information was accessed.

Sony has yet to determine the full scope of an attack on its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services that has left more than 75 million people without access for more than four days.

The company is conducting a "thorough investigation" into the outage, said Satoshi Fukuoka, a spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo. He declined to provide more information about the nature of the problem, which Sony has blamed on an "external intrusion" into the network.

He also said the company has not yet determined if the personal information or credit card numbers of users have been compromised, but that Sony would promptly inform users if it found that was the case.

You really got to love the security of companies you trust with your private information. First your bank's mailing list gets compromised and now your gaming network possibly gives away your credit card information and can't even tell you for sure if they did. You'd almost think that the US Government was handling their security...