On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, the PlayStation Network was shut down. Sony said the move was for maintenance and that the outage would only last a day or two. Nearly one week later, the company announced that the closure was due to a hacker infiltrating the system and stealing PlayStation 3 and PSP players’ personal information. It’s still unknown if the information seized includes the credit card numbers of it’s 77 million PSN subscribers.

Here’s what we know so far on the outage:

4/24/2011: Sony Rebuilding PlayStation Network

4/30/2011: Kaz Hirai to Address Media Tonight on PSN Breach

5/1/2011: Free Subscription To PSN Plus from Welcome Back Program

5/4/2011: Sony Responds to U.S. Congress

5/6/2011: PSN Restoration is Almost Finished

Follow @Shockya on twitter for the latest on the PSN outage.

By Brent Butler