Two former employees of Sony Pictures Entertainment sued the company for not preventing hackers stolen nearly 50,000 Social Security numbers, salary details and other information Personal of their workers.
The lawsuit alleges that Sony Pictures failed in its obligation to ensure their computer systems despite “weaknesses has been aware for years” and made a business decision to accept the risk.
The lawsuit states that the most recent theft of information is particularly “shocking and outrageous” because Sony Pictures has been attacked repeatedly over the years, including a cyber intrusion in 2011 which revealed million user accounts on the network PlayStation video game company.
The case filed Monday in federal court in Los Angeles seeking the status of class action in favor of other current and former employees whose personal information was stolen and posted on the Internet.
Highly sensitive material entertainment unit Sony Corp. based in Tokyo has been filter almost every day since the hackers entered their computer networks last month.
The group calling itself Peace Keepers Tuesday issued more threats and performed more data leaks.
The case mentions two plaintiffs: Michael Corona, a former employee of Sony Entertainment who left the company in 2007 and now lives in Virginia, and Christina Mathis, who left the company in 2002 and resides in California.
They argue that were leaked their Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal data, exposing them to identity theft in the years to come.
His lawyers argue that emails and other information leaked by hackers show that the department of information technology of Sony and its lead counsel believed that the security system was vulnerable to attacks, but the company did not act on those warnings.
Crown and Mathis not clear how much money are looking into the case, but want compensation for actual damage s and an order requiring Sony pay for services to monitor credit and banking services and repair any damage caused by identity theft for at least five years.
Sony has offered employees a year of credit monitoring, says demand. The plaintiffs claim that such protection is inadequate because thieves can exploit personal information in cyber theft for years.
Corona has so far spent $ 700 on identity theft protection for himself and his family, and Mathis has disbursed $ 300, depending on demand.
Legal experts said the case is likely to be the first of many that will be presented in relation to information theft. Sony faces potentially tens of millions of dollars in payment of damages in a class action, said Jonathan Handel, a professor specializing in the entertainment industry Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California law.
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