While events this year have left the reputation of Japanese electronics giant Sony, and in particular their PlayStation 3 system, in tatters, company CEO Sir Howard Stringer has come out strong this week by claiming that the security breach in the headlines a few months ago has been put in the past, and that the company is in a stronger position than before the incident.

The news comes little over four months after the PlayStation Network (the online download shop for PS3 and PSP users to access free and premium content for games, videos, and interactive services) was temporarily shut down as a response to hackers stealing personal and financial details of users.

It has been announced by Stringer, though, that the service has seen an increase of 3 million subscribers on the games consoles since resuming safe operations in late May, while the post-hack sales figures at the PlayStation Store have increased compared to before the incident.

Stringer was at the IFA conference in Berlin (Germany), and said of the improvements to the service: “I’m pleased to tell you that the PSN is more secure and better than ever. We are aggressively expanding its content. We have more than 3 million new customers since the network came back online, and sales are exceeding what we had before the cyber attacks.”

The comments follow those made in July by Sony’s president of network entertainment Tim Schaaff, who was even more optimistic, calling the process of being hacked ‘a great learning experience’. Schaaff said of the hacking scandals that followed Sony’s: “It’s been a great experience. I would not like to do it again. One time was enough. Great learning experience. It’s dramatic but that the lesson we learned from this process is that there are some crazy things going on in the world right now, and in the beginning we were very concerned that we were the focal point for this attack, and it was all about Sony, and what was Sony doing. But over time, the company learned that a wide variety of sites had been hit, including government institutions and other companies.”

With people like these working at the top, it seems as though the entire Sony company might be effectively brushing off the problems of last spring with a feel-good attitude to boot. Will looking on the bright side help inspire them to further growth and development?

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