Game Makers Get Few New Details On PSN Outage

Sony hasn't provided the public any significant update about the status of the PlayStation Network outage or investigation into the security breach in a week. It turns out its video game publisher partners aren't getting much more new information either.

At least that's what we can surmise from a letter from Sony's head of publisher relations that was leaked to gaming blog Industry Gamers last night. The letter mostly repeats what Sony has already posted on its PlayStation blog and written in e-mails to the 77 million users whose information was exposed in a cyberattack more than three weeks ago.

But Rob Dyer, senior vice president of Publisher Relations at Sony, did manage to sneak in a few details in the letter about how the attack went down that hadn't been reported before.

Sony had told us that the intrusion on its network took place between April 17 and 19. But the letter notes that it wasn't until several PSN servers "unexpectedly rebooted themselves" that the company was alerted there might have been a problem.