Sony Online Entertainment

Japanese electronics giant Sony said on Wednesday that it had locked down thousands of user accounts after it had detected a large number of unauthorized sign-in attempts. The news comes nearly six months after the company suffered a massive security breach in which millions of users had personal data stolen.

Sony Online Entertainment announces the upcoming first DLC pack for DC Universe Online, based around the exploits of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps.

PlanetSide 2, the sequel to Sony's massively multiplayer first-person shooter is coming. We've got the trailer and a hint that it may be free-to-play.

Star Wars Galaxies players are finding that Sony is quietly defusing efforts to generate interest around a petition asking that the MMO not be shut down at the end of this year.

Sony Online Entertainment confirms that Star Wars Galaxies will go offline in December of this year.

Sony promises to restore full PSN service, including the return of the PlayStation Store and in-game purchases, sometime this week.

Sony launches an enrollment page for the previously promised free year of identity theft protection from Debix following April's network breach that led to the shutdown of the PlayStation Network, Qriocity and Sony Online Entertainment services.

Sony expects losses of roughly $170 million for fiscal 2011 stemming from the April network breach, which, along with the March earthquake in Japan, puts the company's expected losses this year at $3.1 billion.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer defends the week-long delay between Sony's online services being shut down and customers being alerted to the network data theft.

Service to Sony Online Entertainment games and websites is restored following the release last night of the security-enhancing firmware upgrade that brought PSN and Qriocity back online for the first time since April.

A Sony spokesperson reveals that the company is looking at a May 31 deadline for a full restoration of PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services as their third weekend offline comes to a close.

In news of a second big security breach, Sony Online Entertainment has announced that personal data from approximately 24.6 million accounts may have been stolen by hackers.

SOE has taken down its servers after announcing that it discovered an “issue that warrants concern”. SOE has released a statement addressing the situation.