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"PSN is currently experiencing connection issues, Sony has confirmed. The service has been offline for the majority of the day (August 24), with Sony releasing a statement to confirm that &amp;quot;an attempt to overwhelm [its] network with artificially high traffic&amp;quot; had occurred.  Sony also insisted that no personal information had been accessed in the attempted attack. The company&amp;#039;s statement was as follows: &amp;quot;Like other major networks around the world, the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network have been impacted by an attempt to overwhelm our network with artificially high traffic.  &amp;quot;Although this has impacted your ability to access our network and enjoy our services, no personal information has been accessed.  &amp;quot;We will continue to work towards fixing this issue and hope to have our services up and running as soon as possible. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.&amp;quot; Sony&amp;#039;s PSN service was taken offline in 2011 after it was hacked and data was compromised. Sony recently agreed to a $15 million settlement after the last outage. The company is planning a period of maintenance during the upcoming Bank Holiday in the UK. Sony&amp;#039;s online gaming service will be offline from this Monday (August 25) at 5.40pm UK time until Tuesday, August 26 at 0.50am. PlayStation users will be unable to access several services during the maintenance period, including the PlayStation Store, PSN account management and Network account registration. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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