In my opinion neXus is right about Sony handling this badly, from the off the smoke and mirrors approach regarding stolen details they used was absolutely unforgivable, as is someone not doing a security audit once the console was fully compromised, I find it incredible that not one person didn't think about the knock on effect of the console being blown to bits. I've read reports on Sony servers running on ancient apache versions that where exploited easily once discovered, laughable security loopholes.
This is a multi billion dollar company employing a shed load of people, not bobs computers down the road, the lack of transparancy/regularity of official statements is just crap. Sony only seem to want to keep it hush hush as much as possible, the rest isn't important.
Hacker wise regardless of what has been done they shouldn't have been able to do this in the first place, this was preventable with basic business and security procedures, it's the nature of how Sony got hacked, those responsible for security need showing the door and tbh probably have.
They should just come out and say we're rebuilding it from scratch, because if they're not doing that and taking this long then they need shooting!
Sony are even going to be offering a couple of free game downloads once PSN is back up, you can't really say better than that for an apology gift on a free service!
Depends, are they just some budget bin rubbish? wait and see I guess