Currently Maintanance is being carried out on the PlayStation Network. During this period the following services will be affected:

Qriocity
PlayStation Store
Account management
You may find you are having an issue signing in and the error code (80710A06).

When the maintenance has been completed I will update this thread with more information.

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Update:

edit: heres au.playstation's status:

Error 503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable

Guru Meditation:

XID: 985656977

Official Update #1

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As you are no doubt aware, the current emergency outage is continuing this afternoon and all Sony Online Network services remain unavailable. Our support teams are investigating the cause of the problem, including the possibility of targeted behaviour by an outside party. If the reported Network problems are indeed caused by such acts, we would like to once again thank our customers who have borne the brunt of the attack through interrupted service.

Our engineers are continuing to work to restore and maintain the services, and we appreciate our customers continued support. For further information, please refer to updates on PlayStation.com, here on PlayStation.Blog and via our @PlayStationEU twitter feed.

Official Update #2

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While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before were able to get the service completely back up and running. Thank you very much for your patience while we work to resolve this matter. Please stay tuned to this space for more details, and well update you again as soon as we can.
For further information, please refer to updates on PlayStation.com our @PlayStationEU twitter feed.