"I'm pleased to tell you that the PSN is more secure and better than ever," Stringer said at a news conference at the IFA electronics show in Berlin. "We are aggressively expanding its content. We have more than three million new customers since the network came back online, and sales are exceeding what we had before the cyberattacks."

Stringer gave the impression he was trying to take the offensive in his short but defiant speech. "This year, we at Sony have been flooded, we've been flattened, we've been hacked, we've been singed," he said. "But the summer of our discontent is behind us."

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/web-apps/2011/09/01/sony-boss-hails-psns-recovery-from-cyberattacks-40093817/

Apparently the PSN fiasco didn't undermine Sony's credibility.

So what you're saying is that the internet blew something out of proportion? What about the PS3 being doomed, the Wii killing hardcore gaming, the RRoD making Microsoft go out of business, RE Mercenaries having one save and killing the trade-in market, the 3DS selling like shit, the Xbox Live price hike, Obama becoming President, Sony's lack of rumble in the SIXAXIS controller, Final Fantasy XIII being ported to the Xbox 360, and the removal of backwards compatibility in the PS3? Next thing you're going to tell me is that all of those things didn't destroy the world, too!

its no doubt that the hack help'd right.

the PSN hack did hurt Sony to some extent, but nowhere near the overblown shit the media was throwing around. good to see Sony back on their feet.

Surprised I don't see Nsanity making his usual negative comments on anything Sony.
OT: It's good to see Sony get back on their feet and hopefully they learned their lesson on mediocre security.

Didn't a lot of people have to remake accounts because they wernt sent their passwords or something?

Sony themselves said that 10% of their PSN business was down post PSN relaunch.

Guess even that number came back to a degree

obviously it affected them at the time of the hack cause the store was down but it didnt really affect them with the customers much. i mean most people i knew never gave a damn it was offline, we have other games and we knew it'll be back anyway. it was blown way out of proportion. i remember a few articles about how alot of ps3 users were switching to the 360.. yea right

Some people forgot their passwords.

I have 3 accounts....2 for myself, 1 for my niece and nephew.  I got both of mine, but my nephew who made the account couldn't remember the fake Email password that he created.

No big deal, they can still use my second for online and use theirs for offline.

I was still good because my 2 accounts got me 4 free games. 

I can't say another hacking would be such a bad thing for my game collection.  :P