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Credit card data possibly compromised. “Some services” back up next week.

Updated Story: Patrick Seybold offered clarification on why Sony took as long as it did to notify PSN customers. His full statement sent to IGN is below:

There’s a difference in timing between when we identified there was an intrusion and when we learned of consumers’ data being compromised. We learned there was an intrusion April 19th and subsequently shut the services down. We then brought in outside experts to help us learn how the intrusion occurred and to conduct an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the incident.

It was necessary to conduct several days of forensic analysis, and it took our experts until yesterday to understand the scope of the breach. We then shared that information with our consumers and announced it publicly this afternoon.

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By Robert McGinty The 3DS is Nintendos flashiest and most expensive handheld gaming device yet, with a bunch of games packed in and more impressive features on the way through summer updates. Thats the good news.

The bad news?

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