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Sony begins making amends for PSN hack

Sony on Friday began offering free videogames and virtual goods to members of its PlayStation Network in a bid to make amends for hackers breaking into the online entertainment service.

A "Welcome Back" programme unveiled in North America lets network members with PlayStation 3 consoles pick two free videogames from a five-title list including "inFAMOUS" and "LittleBigPlanet."

Network members with PlayStation Portable handheld gaming gadgets can chose two of
four titles, with options including "Killzone Liberation" and "ModNation Racers."

Sony also offered PSN members a free month of access to its PlayStation Plus subscription service featuring game software, discounts on titles, and exclusive digital content.

The apology package also included 100 virtual items from a PlayStation Home shop disabled along with PSN and Qriocity music-streaming service after hackers looted user information from Sony's systems.

"Today, we're excited to launch the Welcome Back program to thank you for your loyalty," PSN senior director Susan Panico said in a post at the PlayStation blog.

The program launched on Friday and free content will be available through July 3, according to Panico.

Welcome Back packages were to vary based on regions.

Sony on Thursday had restored PSN services everywhere except Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, after being targeted in a massive online attack that prompted the Japanese company to shut down the network to harden defenses.

The consumer electronics titan has been under pressure to get its gamer network back in action, and users appeased, before the start of a major Electronics Entertainment Expo videogame gathering in Los Angeles next week.

Sony was attacked in one of the biggest data breaches since the advent of the Internet, in which the user names, passwords, addresses and birth dates of more than 100 million people may have been compromised.

The company later suffered attacks on websites including in Greece, Thailand and Indonesia, and on the Canadian site of mobile phone company Sony Ericsson.

On Thursday, a group of hackers calling themselves Lulz Security claimed to have compromised more than one million passwords, email addresses and other information from Sony movie site SonyPictures.com.

They published a number of files on the Web containing lists of thousands of stolen email addresses and passwords.

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