Sony's PlayStation Network is currently experiencing an outage affecting users of the service around the world.
According to CNET news, an error message appears when attempting to log in to PSN: "An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network. (8002A548)." According to an official PlayStation support site, the error code 8002A543 may also appear.
PlayStation Twitter account informs that the company engineers are working hard on restoring the service.
PSN downtime is a sensitive subject for many following a month of PSN outages earlier this year that were ultimately pegged to cyberbattacks.
The sheer scope of the recent hacking scandal- which compromised the personal information of millions of gamers–was a huge smudge on the public perception of the gaming network. In the damage-control department, Sony issued multiple apologies and the promise of a strengthened network, along with giving affected users a $1 million identity theft insurance policy and free games. It also gave all PSN members affected by the outage access to PlayStation Plus for a month.
