On Friday evening going into Saturday the biggest story was that the PlayStation Network (PSN) was down for almost a full day. Eventually, PSN came back online after it was out for over 20 hours.
On Sunday, in the early morning, Sony gave us the reason for the PSN outage. The reason it was down was due to “an operational issue”. They apologized for the inconvenience and thanked the community for their patience.
Sony Provides Free Gift For PSN Outage
The statement provided by the official Ask PlayStation X (Twitter) account, also mentions that all PlayStation Plus members will automatically receive an additional five days of service.
The PSN originally went down around 6:00 PM ET on Friday, February 7th. This outage impacted users across the world, which took away the ability to sign in, play online, or even access the PlayStation Store. There hasn’t been an outage this long for PSN since April 2011.
This outage will go down as the second-longest in PlayStation Network history.
Sony did not go too much in depth as to how this all happened but it’s safe to say there was no hacking involved this time around.
