With all the problems the Sony Playstation Network has had over the last few months, you would think that Sony would allow their customers access to their products from any source they could use. In the past users have gone to Amazon.com (News - Alert) in order to buy PSN Points, game vouchers and other digital goods that can be used on the PSN. 

But now Sony seems to have pulled all of these things from Amazon, forcing its customers to go back to storing their private information on a site that has had real problems keeping that information private.

Pulling items from the online retailer seems to be a surprise to most people. PSN Stores noted that at one time, the Amazon page for the Playstation Network once had 500 items listed on it. The page is now just a blank wall. In addition, pages for downloadable games now simply pull up a message that says the titles are currently unavailable and that they don’t know if the items will be available again. 

PSN Stores does point out that this particular type of removal does happen when talking about these companies working with outside companies. Amazon had all of its 3DS items pulled in July, only to be returned later.

However, the removal of the PSN items seems to be a concentrated effort to bring people back to the Playstation Network as the number one sales point. How happy customers are who don’t feel as though they were that safe purchasing from the network will be has yet to be seen. Certainly, there will be more of a backlash once more people begin to notice that the items they bought from Amazon are no longer available.

Security breaches have been a little too common for the PSN and there will undoubtedly be a bit of a backlash from customers who have been putting their trust in Sony to safeguard them. By limiting how the customers can safeguard themselves, the company seems to be trying to downplay the problems, or downright ignoring what has been a huge problem for people who thought their data was completely safe.