14 DAY TRIAL // The recent hacker attack that affected the whole PlayStation Network has forced Sony to take a more vigilant stance on security, at least according to its European boss, Andrew House.
Sony suffered greatly after a hacker attack at the end of April forced it to take down its PlayStation Network online service and rebuild it in a more secure manner, after intruders managed to steal personal information from all the 70+ million PSN users.
The company brought back the service in May, but people won't easily forget about the intrusion and the fact that their personal data was affected by the hackers.
To those who continued to back up the Japanese company, Andrew House, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, has expressed a sincere thank you, and emphasized that the intrusion has changed the stance the company has on security.
"The first thing I'd like to say to people is that we are genuinely humbled and extremely grateful to those consumers who have continued to put their trust in us," House told CVG. "That's a responsibility we now take even more seriously than we did before. We'll try our absolute best to try and make our system as secure as we possibly can."
House also admits that Sony has a "long way to go to restore consumers' faith in the system," but he hopes that the recent intrusion has "taught Sony - and many other companies - that you have to adopt a stance of hyper vigilance."
While the PSN hacker attack has certainly made Sony a bit more careful, rampant attacks made by a group known only as LulzSec have affected other gaming companies, like Sega or Bethesda, as well as online games like Minecraft or EVE.
Hopefully, things will get back to normal and gamers from all around the world will be able to interact online, no matter the platform, in a safe and secure manner.