Sony: PSN Hack was a “wakeup call” for us

Jack Tretton, SCEA boss thinks that the recent PSN hack served as a “wakeup call” for the entire company.

He told the NYT, that post the PSN outage, the company has become much more “vigilant”, and it would help them move forward.

“We have been ever vigilant with everything that has been happening,” he said.

“If you read the newspaper, you realize that there are companies being bombarded with people trying to hack them all the time. Yet, this was a real wakeup call we had to go through. Now we feel our systems are more secure that they have ever been.”

A reassuring statement he made was that around 90 percent of PSN users – “more than 70 million people” - have now resumed using the service, which was offline as a result of the hack for more than one month, before resuming service last month.

Tretton also made it clear that although they encourage independent game development, tinkering with the PS3 is something it is thoroughly against.

“We embrace independent game development; if you call that hacking, then we embrace that,” We give people tools that let them create new experiences,” he said.

“What I don’t think we are in support of is someone trying to hack our device to pirate software and possibly collapse the platform.”

The Playstation Network outage cost millions of dollars for Sony and had left it red-faced in front of the entire gaming media, but the way it has reacted to the whole situation has enabled them to gain widespread appreciation.