Gamers hoping to get back onto Sony's PlayStation network will have to keep waiting.

Gamers hoping to get back onto Sony's PlayStation network will have to keep waiting.

The company Saturday said it would delay the restart of the network for an unspecified period of time, according to a Reuters report.

Last Sunday, Sony had said it would begin restoring the network by the end of this week, but a company representative Saturday said that would not be possible, the report said.

Also Saturday, Sony said it removed personal information of 2,500 people that had been posted on a Web site affiliated with Sony Electronics without Sony's knowledge, according to a report on The Wall Street Journal's Web site. Sony said the data on the people, who were sweepstakes participants, did not include credit-card information.

The company is trying to assess the security of the PlayStation network after hackers infiltrated it in mid-April, possibly compromising private account details of some 77 million users.

This week, Sony divulged another security breach, also in mid-April, in which hackers may have stolen personal information from about 24.6 million accounts at its Sony Online Entertainment division, which makes multiplayer online games.