The PlayStation Network is still down after a security breach that may have compromised millions of customer’s personal information including possibly credit card details. Some  projections say up to 77 million PSN customers information may have been compromised.

Now recently it has been reported that Kristopher Johns, 36, of Birmingham Alabama (United States) has filed in the U.S District Court for the Northern District of California. In the lawsuit, it is alleged that Sony “Failed to encrypt data and establish adequate firewalls to handle a server intrusion contingency, failed to provide prompt and adequate warnings of security breaches, and unreasonably delayed in bringing the PSN service back on line.” It further accused Sony of violations of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standard, which prohibits companies from storing cardholder data.

There are several questions on the consumer’s minds. Mostly on having possibly to cancel credit cards that may have been listed on PSN. Next, how soon will the online aspects be back up for PSN? The impacts for games that have a strong online component are affected the most. Any games made exclusively for the PS3 may have far-reaching effects not only to Sony, but also for the companies that made the games. For instance, SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals–a third-person shooter that has just recently released, players will have to be content with the single player experience only for now.

For now, we watch and wait as Sony works out fixing things and plugging any security breaches and we all hope, so this does not happen again.

Edwin Millheim
United States Editor
Impulse Gamer