It has its ups and downs. it certainly isnt a good thing from a PR standpoint. the reputation with the general public is probabily strained now considering i dont think the general public understood the whole story. and the media generated a mass panic situation.
the key thing being no credit card information was obtained. so thats good news.
the great news for Sony is that because of the media circus, and the mass panic of consumers, the FBI and Homeland Security are personally going to catch these people. which sends a very strong signal to Sony's war on hackers. so its not safe to be a computer hacker at all.
good news for us fans is we get PSN Plus free for a month, so - not a bad deal since my cc details were safe the whole time.
however i think for the heavy online gamers, this has been a blow they cant forget, Sony has let them down, a lot of users rely on the honesty and reliablilty of PSN and they've been failed this week, so i think it will take more than one month free PSN to win back their trust. - personally i think 3 months would've been more acceptable.
