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Sony has announced it is looking into establishing an identity theft protection scheme for European users affected by the PlayStation Network outage that has been plaguing the company since April 20.
PSN users in the USA have been given one year of the “AllClear ID Plus” service from credit protection agency Debix, which provides cyber monitoring and surveillance, access to private investigators, and $1 million of identity theft per user.
“Creating a similar offering for the many countries within the SCEE region is a very complicated process,” said head of communications Nick Caplin on the SCEE blog. “Each country has a different way of handling identity theft; some offer relatively sophisticated services whilst others are much more modest.”
Caplin wouldn’t go into details about which European countries were causing Sony the most grief.
“We are currently in the process of identifying how we manage this situation and once the programme is ready to launch, we will provide details of exactly which services are available in each country and explain how to sign up.”
“We hope to do this early next week,” concluded Caplin.
PlayStation Network has been offline since April 20 after a hacking attack led to the potential loss of private information of over 70 million registered users. Sony has repeatedly denied that credit card information (which was revealed to be encrypted) was accessed.
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