My accounts are unrelated to where I am based and that country is not supported by PS Store last time I have checked. Does this mean I ll never be able to use them again??

PS Store is still down so don't worry about that but Sony appears to be bringing up regions but locking them to IP's. So if your home region doesn't have PSN back up yet you won't be able to log on with an account from another region. Probably did this to keep from all their servers being hammered when they started bringing them up in the US. Thereby keeping Europeans and wherever else that had US accounts from logging in hammering the US servers while they waited for their regions to come on line.

Is this going to change so I can use my accounts again???

I'm not sure related to countries that never had but countries that have it once their home market is up and the other markets that they have accounts for are up it seems to work fine. Japan is still down due the government not allowing them to bring it back up yet. Other places are having intermittent issues due to server load but as far as I am aware all but Japan/Asia markets are up.

I'm not able to log in to us.playstation.com/PSN

I am getting the "under maintenance" message in English and Japanese. I created the account when I was living in Kansas, but I am now in Guam. I wonder if that is the reason I can't log in.

I would expect so. Unsupported countries are probably just a lower priority. I'd be surprised if the changes they made to the system would actually effectively block unsupported countries from accessing the network since I'm not sure that any of the console manufacturers would turn away customers who have already purchased one of their systems.

It's been up and down all day due to load so it could be that or you being in guam.

Ok, so we are down to they should have "said something", which they did. But just not what you or many others wanted to hear.

I just did a reset on my US account, so something else is acting up for you.

Which website ? I need to do that too as my ps3 ain't online these days. I am thinking of getting a new one for my work place where I have net. But I need to remove my CC info, if I left it there. pls provide a link.

I wouldn't say smooth sailing. After the inital easy access and password cahnge for me, later in the day I could log on and was told there was maintenance. Still, we'll get there in the end.

Interestingly I also took off my CC details, althugh I'm not sure why. They're theoretically as safe there as anywhere. It's not like I've removed them from Amazon or the like. But I guess I'm doing my typical, "wait to see how this thing runs fo rthe first few months to see if Sony have made any mistakes." May see about getting a PSN card code instead. Better value anyhow.

It does. As of now your IP needs to be activated for you to access the PSN. Sony are doing it by country, so you have to be in a country that has access returned.

If you are in the UK and want to access your US account you can do that, but if you are in Japan and you want to access your US account you can't do it because Japanese IPs haven't been given access.

If we're going to be reductive, it would be more accurate to say that I believe that they should have both had access to more information and chosen to share it more quickly then they did.

US PSN site (before it went back into maintenance mode) but keep in mind that IP restrictions from the past week+ or so are still in place.

Which is very hard to disagree on. But from what we know there is a good and valid explanation on why they didn´t.

Yah, it's sort of a raw human instinct -- like touching a hot or cold surface and withdrawing from it quickly.

I have my CC stored in multiple, less secure sites. I work in IT security and know many of the issues with trying to secure anything. Nevertheless, I immediately changed my password to a machine generated one, and removed my CC. Strange beings we are... as illogical as we are.

The real victims of CC fraud are the banks, and then the consumers with the higher rates and fees we may pay as a result of the banks passing the cost down to us.

It's semantics, but while there are valid explanations, there are no valid excuses as the responsibility ultimately always comes back to Sony for how the situation was handled. I don't blame them for the hack itself, but I fully blame them for how they chose/were forced to communicate to their customers in the aftermath.

yes thats why I principle try to never use one (maybe twice a year)
paying with a CC adds ~2% to the price, but stores, instead of making the ppl who pay with CC pay an extra 2@ ( a fairer system ) they instead put up the price of everything

It's actually by agreement with the credit card companies. They (visa/mastercard) won't allow retailers to charge a premium for CC use if they want access to their system. It's even more convoluted than that as some premium cards (points/airmiles/cash back etc) have even higher charges, but the stores are required to treat them the same.

At last now everything works like a charm :)

Pretty bummed with the 'Welcome Back' games they are offering in the US. Maybe I'm the sucker for already owning all those games! :)

I'm pretty happy because I don't own any of them. I was pretty interested in trying Infamous, and I skipped Q4B and went right to Crack in Time.

Japan Restart of Sony Online Games Services Not Yet Approved
 

Source: http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110515D15JF766.htm
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I certainly wouldn't be using PSN if Japan won't let them go back online yet.

Clearly, it's a matter of honour (I'm an expert ಠ_ಠ).

The welcome back is a nice list. Unfortunately with any list they were always going to have ant's problem with some. Though I kinda wonder why they didn't include or choose one of the first party PS1 classics on the list.