Sony has announced that it has attracted 3 million new users to its Playstation Network since it was attacked by hackers in April.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer’s spoke at the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin last week, saying that PSN sales are now higher than they were before the attack forced Sony to shutter and begin rebuilding the service mid-April.
“I’m pleased to tell you that the PSN is more secure and better than ever,” said Stringer at an IFA news conference. “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 cyberattacks.”
The PSN was shut down on April 20 this year in what Sony first claimed was an outage.
That changed a week later when the company admitted that “external intruder(s)” had prompted them to shut the service off.
The intruders managed to steal the personal account information of over 75 million PSN users—one of the largest breaches of confidential user information in history.
“This year, we at Sony have been flooded, we’ve been flattened, we’ve been hacked, we’ve been singed,” said Stringer at the IFA conference. “But the summer of our discontent is behind us. The past is a prologue to future possibility.”
