PS3 Leap Year Bug
Posted by Grabeorama on 3 Mar 2010
AS I'm sure all you PS3 owners out there already know, on March 1st 2010, the "fat" Playstation 3 was hit by a bug which messed up the sync between the console and PSN. The problem caused loss of data, and loss of trophies. Users also could not log-in to PSN.
The bug was caused by a malfunction in the internal clock of the PS3. For some reason it programmed 2010 to be a leap year. Due to the fact that 2010 was not a leap year, the PS3's date didn't match PSN date and caused all kinds of malfunctions.
The bug only affected "fat" Playstations so the slim owners were left un-touched. Thankfully the bug was resolved by Sony within 24 hours but many people still lost many hard earned trophies as well as game data. My friend, who hadn't synced in about a month lost about 70% trophy completion for a game he had almost platinumed.
Hopefully the error won't happen again, let us know if you were affected by the bug.
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Ah yes the error! I haven't actually been on my ps3 since It happened so I dont know if I lost any trophies or data but I probably didnt. My friend on the other hand lost all his cod5 trophies and all his themes got corrupt. I should be going on my ps3 because I just got a ps3 card planing to but mgs dlc for lbp. How about you Grabe did it affect you? guess not if you dont have online.