Highly hacked Sony is currently testing its patched PS3 network and is offering punters a limited service.
The network has been down since April 20, after it was hacked and all its users details were passed on to spammers.
It turned out that the most of the problems were caused by servers being unpatched and accessible.
According to the Guardian Sony began restoring its PlayStation Network service in the United States and Europe
Currently, online gaming, chat and music streaming is available. Sony wants to fully restore the network by the end of May.
There has been a phased restoration of its Qriocity movie and music services which share the PlayStation Network's servers too.
Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the Middle East will get a limited service soon, and Sony said it will start restoring the service for users in Asia.
Kazuo Hirai, chief of Sony Corp's PlayStation video game unit, announced that the outfit had beefed up security measures.
However, it looks like anything involving credit cards is still on hold. Punters can't buy video games or other content by using credit cards.
Apparently out of 100 million user accounts, more than 92 million can access the limited service.
It turned out that the most of the problems were caused by servers being unpatched and accessible. ". thus having this accessiblity means openings to hackers all over just wanted stuff. for the 360, yes you have to pay to play online, but some of that money goes to updates, patches, and SECURITY. yea the 360 isnt the best system in the world but the ps3 just caused almost 12.5 million people to have id theft while some 78 million were at risk. and look at Nintendo, the ONLY problem i've ever heard of is the wii remote going into the tv. so yea free internet is nice, but its all real nice when my id gets stolen because i'm playing a game, so how do you trust a system that just cost you your life.