[Update] PlayStation Network: All-Clear In North America And Europe

Update #2: Sony Computer Entertainment America has notified customers that service is being restored.

Network connectivity is being restored. Thanks for your patience.

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) August 26, 2014

Update #1: Sony Europe is sounding the all-clear for its customers. No update has been offered from Sony Computer Entertainment America yet.

Network connectivity is being restored to the rest of the network. Thanks for your patience again.

— PlayStation Europe (@PlayStationEU) August 26, 2014

Original Story:

Sony has confirmed an ongoing outage of the PlayStation Network. The news comes just days after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Sony’s online platform.

Sony hasn’t yet updated its PlayStation Support page, but the official Twitter account acknowledges the problem and indicates engineers are working on the problem. We’ll update as we learn more.

Network update: our engineers are aware of the issues and are working to resolve. We'll keep you posted - sorry for the inconvenience

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) August 26, 2014