The anger came from people believing Sony was ”acting against their best interests.” Hacking threats must now be taken ”extremely seriously,” by all companies not just Sony.
”There were some very ugly threats going on, and we became the target,” House told CVG.
”The irony, for me, is that we became the target because we thought, I think quite fairly, that we were trying to protect our intellectual property rights from piracy. But it was ironically that which led a certain sector of opinion to think that, somehow, we were acting against their best interests.”
Sony is part of a much wider group of companies and organisations now threatened constantly by hackers. ”That will be an ongoing challenge, and I think it’s one we’ll have to take extremely seriously. But it galvanised us, right up to the very top of the company,” continued the executive.
”We’ve hired an extremely experienced Chief Information Security Officer at the corporate level, not just on the PlayStation level. We’ve revamped our systems to the best of our ability, to try to ensure that this kind of thing, as far as possible, can be prevented.” PlayStation Network was crippled by a hack group’s campaign against the service.
Anonymous has vowed further attacks on Sony over their support of SOPA, which is being largely decried in the U.S. for going too far and ludicrously favouring copyright holders over freedom on the Internet.
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