Welcome to the first bit of good news on the PSN hacking story. Sony has announced that it will be offering free identity theft insurance and protection services through AllClear ID to PSN and Qriocity users. This is on top of a free month of PSN Plus, and a far more important offering to users of the service that was hacked, compromising personal information and credit card numbers for millions.

With $1,000,000 identity theft insurance, the AllClear ID service offers a bit of reassurance for the various PSN users, including myself, worried that they’re going to see their credit cards maxed out and their bank accounts drained after this. Sony will start sending out authorization codes to PSN users over the next few days. After you receive your code, you can set up the service at this web site.

Now, let’s all get excited over the inevitable June announcement that AllClear ID’s database was hacked and its user information was stolen.