the answer to all the ps3 network being down?"PlayStation Network is offline for scheduled maintenance from 16:05 on Wednesday 9 March 2011 until 03:00 on Thursday 10 March 2011, GMT."
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SONY is rebuilding its PlayStation Network to bring it back online after an alleged hacking attack disrupted the service for almost a week.
The outage has affected more than 70 million users worldwide, who use the network to play video games against friends online, stream movies and shop online.
Yesterday Sony's global PlayStation Network continued to experience problems for a fifth straight day.
The company said it turned off the network, which lets gamers connect in live play. Qriocity, the company's online entertainment platform, also was affected.
"We sincerely regret that PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been suspended, and we are working around the clock to bring them both back online," Sony senior director of corporate communications and social media Patrick Seybold said in a posting on the official PlayStation blog late on Saturday.
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He said the company had to rebuild its systems to strengthen its network infrastructure.
"Though this task is time-consuming, we decided it was worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security," Seybold said.
"We thank you for your patience to date and ask for a little more while we move towards completion of this project,'' the company said in the post.
Players can still play games offline, but are unable to challenge others over the internet, one of the console's key features.
The outage began after last Tuesday's release of the game "Mortal Kombat", which is available on the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360.
Hacker group Anonymous was originally suspected of causing the disruption as it had previously vowed retribution against the Japanese electronics giant after it took legal action against two hackers.
However, in a message on its website Friday, entitled "For Once We Didn't Do It", the group denied responsibility, saying that while it was possible that individual hackers had targeted the network, Sony wasn't an official target.
The message went on to accuse Sony of "taking advantage of Anonymous' previous ill-will towards the company to distract users from the fact that the outage is actually an internal problem with the company's servers".
The outage came during a heavy playing week in the United States, with many public schools closed for spring break and an Easter holiday providing an opportunity for an extended weekend.
No information was given on when users could expect the service to be restored.
It also comes as Amazon.com restores computers used by other major websites as an outage stretched into a fourth day.
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