NEW YORK - Sony CEO Howard Stringer admitted no longer able to guarantee the security of the PlayStation Network following a hacker attack that caused the leaking of data tens of millions of users, some time ago.

Japanese electronics has revived services PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment, after being offline for nearly a month due to hacker attacks. This attack is expected to force Sony to lose up to $ 1 billion.

Even so, Stringer warned that it no longer can guarantee 100 percent security for users of that service. In fact, Stringer also indicated that after a while hackers will target the global financial system.

"Unfortunately, this attack is only the beginning of other bad things that might happen. This is not a brave new world, but the new world which is very bad," Stringer told, was quoted as saying West Australian on Wednesday (18/05/2011).

On this occasion, Stringer also threw a defense related criticism that was brought to Sony for not more quickly inform the attack to the user. He said "We're trying to find out beforehand what is happening in this situation before providing that information. If your house is robbed, you'll find out first if there are missing items before contacting the police".