Lindsay Lohan is not the online getting legal drama these days. Even bigshots like Sony gets their fair share of courtroom woes. The company has recently received complaint regarding the data breach that occurred in the PlayStation Network. The incident involves 75 million customers connected to the said network.
The class action type of lawsuit covers the personal information of all PSN users affected in the data breach. It was requested by Kristopher Johns, a 36 year old Alabama resident in behalf of all affected PSN users. He presented the lawsuit on the grounds of Sony’s failure to immediately notify the customers regarding the breach incident, which in turn resulted to confusion on whether or not the affected users must take actions such as changing their credit card numbers or close their exposed accounts.
Because of the said failure on the part of Sony, users demand monetary compensation and credit card monitoring for free. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut also expressed concern regarding this matter and suggested that Sony must provide security services for its affected customers, including free credit card monitoring (as in the lawsuit) for two years.
Sony temporarily turned off its PlayStation Network and Qriocity after the incident, and hired outside security firm to investigate on the data breach in the network, and subsequently conduct system and security rebuilding. They also admitted in statement yesterday, that all personal data stored in PSN was illegally acquired by an unauthorized person.
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