It's not a great day for any company, no matter who it is, when their security is breached. And when you combine that with the fact that over 20 mil users information seems to have been accessed, in one way, or another, it's definitely alarming.

OXCGN writers look at the pros-n-cons of this latest hack, that sees the PSN still down 2 weeks after the attack. Two opinions are presented in the article, well worth the read.

First off, we appreciate games as a whole whether it’s the Uncharted or Killzone series or the monstrous powerhouse that is PC gaming.

But one has to wonder if the current PSN outage could not have come at a better time for avid Xbox gamers.

After keeping up to date with the developments of this ongoing saga I can’t help but feel for those like me who are new owners of the PS3 (in my case a mere 2 months ago). For the last 2 weeks I haven’t touched my PS3 due to the PSN outage.

Personal information being compromised, credit card information having been potentially obtained, no official word from SONY until a week after the PSN had been down, no sure confirmed ETA (as of writing) on when it will even be back up and the mere fact that apart from the great single player exclusive PS3 games I own (and I’ve already played) I simply cannot use the thing for what I wanted- multiplayer with my PS3 mates.

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