When Sony switched their PSN server back online, they faced network congestion due to the overwhelming amount of users resetting their password. However, shortly after the service was put back online, there was an exploit, and the servers were taken down by Sony. Speculations were that PSN got exploited again by hackers, but that wasn’t the case.

If you didn’t know, PSN was taken down weeks ago due to a breach, and the hackers SHOULD have got hold of all your information, including your email and date of birth, which is sufficient to reset your password yet again if they managed to guess your email’s password, if you’ve changed them (PSN password).

However, that does not seem to be the case. Sony has given an official statement that the servers were taken down due to a bug in the URL that can exploit your password when you reset your PSN password.

“Contrary to some reports, there was no hack involved. In the process of resetting of passwords there was a URL exploit that we have subsequently fixed.”

Right, let’s wait for our turn to have our PSN back online, I want to download those two games!

SOURCE via Sony