The PSN recently suffered the barbs of certain hackers, though they by far haven’t been the only ones. Sony deputy president Kaz Hirai thinks it is a problem that extends far beyond Sony as a result.
“Just generally speaking, whether it’s PSN or any other non-Sony services, in the past week several companies and organizations also got hacked as well,” said Hirai. “I think there are reports that the FBI got hacked. So this isn’t something that is a Microsoft issue or a Sony issue or limited to one or two companies. This is actually a lot bigger than that. It’s large enough to the extent that we’re talking about any and all companies, organizations and entities that deal in the online space which is pretty much everyone at this stage, isn’t it?”
“It’s a threat, not just to Sony or a couple of other companies, but to the very fabric of society, he said. Therefore it requires individuals and companies to be very vigilant, which goes without saying, and we need help from various government, various enforcement agencies and legislation in certain instances as well. And this needs to be a worldwide effort.”
“We had moved the data centers and we basically have done everything to bring our practices at least in line with industry standards or better,” he continued. “I’m not going to get into details of what we did and have not done for security reasons. But I can tell you that, as far as the PS3 is concerned, we’ve done everything that we thought we could to make sure we’re protecting our consumers’ data as aggressively as possible.”
Source: The Guardian {link no longer active}
