Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Sony Sued Over Hack

Sony pictures is being sued, reports TMZ. The class action suit against Sony is being filed by two ex-employees, and is accusing Sony of not protecting their personal information from hackers. Information that includes social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, salary histories, and more. They argue that since Sony was warned about the hack on November 24, they should have done more to beef up security. The employees are suing for unspecified damages, as well as 5 years identity theft protection, credit restoration, and bank monitoring.
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15 comments:

  1. cheesegrater15December 17, 2014 at 6:23 AM

    Oooooh, I didn't know they had been warned.

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  2. Brenda LDecember 17, 2014 at 6:26 AM

    GET THAT MONEY, and I don't blame you for it!!!!

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  3. ethorneDecember 17, 2014 at 6:29 AM

    This messy mess is such a font of gossip. <3

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  4. Kno WonDecember 17, 2014 at 6:31 AM

    I wonder if there's a Sony corporate takeover in the works, somewhere. This hacking thing, the whole shitstorm over The Interview...it seems like all of a sudden Sony is ShitiCorp and I think it's a bit odd.

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  5. JessiDecember 17, 2014 at 7:07 AM

    They deserve every penny. What a rigamarole their next few years are going to be.

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  6. auntliddyDecember 17, 2014 at 7:13 AM

    Yeah, somy has money. Protect yo peeps.

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  7. SherryDecember 17, 2014 at 7:25 AM

    Sony is a very patriarchal company who take forever to make ANY change. They were hacked a few years back with much less fanfare but hacked nonetheless. I would not be surprised if these slow pokes were still arguing over/ trying to decide which security software to use. And I'll bet those employees suing know.

    Look sorry they just really are dumbasses who got theirs handed to them.

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  8. Kat has left the buildingDecember 17, 2014 at 7:39 AM

    I hope they win every penny and then some.

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  9. rolotomassiDecember 17, 2014 at 7:40 AM

    Jessi --- "rigamorale" ...you just made my day luv!!! since it's such rigamorale, I never even knew there WAS a spelling for it--& I thought it only happened in my house growing up! ; ) thanks for that throwback heaven

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    1. JessiDecember 17, 2014 at 7:55 AM

      Ha. Well you're very welcome. It's a great word isn't' it?

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    2. rolotomassiDecember 17, 2014 at 8:28 AM

      it just sums it up almost visually! : )

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  10. Moxie GirlDecember 17, 2014 at 8:33 AM

    When they say they were "warned", what they mean is that the first hack occurred on November 24, so Sony was on notice that their system was hacked and they should have, at that time, done everything to safeguard their employee information. Since they failed to do anything at that time to protect their employees' information, they were negligent and are liable. One of my good friend's info was taken - SSN, address, birthday, medical records, passwords, etc. Every email and document is completely gone. PLUS, the hackers are still in their system. Last week there was another warning on everyone's computer threatening their families. The fact that the hackers are still in the system tells you how good they are. Crazy shit

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    1. UnknownDecember 17, 2014 at 4:52 PM

      That's such a nightmare for your friend, @Moxie Girl. It's one thing for everyone to make fun of Channing Tatertot's moronic hacked e-mail, but I think it's totally awful when innocent employees get the kind of personal information you have to provide to your place of employment, exposed. Very scary about families getting threatened also. I hope your friend and any other Sony
      employees who have had such personal identifying info hacked, end up suing the shit out of the company that failed to protect their privacy.

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  11. UnknownDecember 17, 2014 at 8:42 AM

    I think that America is sue-happy. Frivolous lawsuits damage our legal system. However, any company that does not protect their company data and their employee data deserves to be sued. The ramifications are too great. Regardless of whether Sony was warned - either by the hackers, their IT staff or consultants - they knew hackers existed, corporate espionage existed and personal & corporate information was on those servers. Pay some actor mega-millions of a movie that won't make it's money back, but go cheap on securing their system is a bad plan.

    For a company that relies so heavily on PR & ass-kissing this was a bone-head decision.

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    1. rolotomassiDecember 17, 2014 at 9:15 AM

      Karen W- you're absolutely right re: Sue-Happy(Jackson Pignett VS.Kentucky Fried Chicken -You Made Me Fat! )--may I add CriminalDefense Dense( i.e.-I had PMS & I don't remember how that knife ended up in his back)...
      But, there IS a HUGE difference between the fact that it happened before so they KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN of the ramifications as opposed to: It's never happened & they thought their system was airtight & pay shitloads of money to affirm that fact-that's not a 'regardless' situation,in all due respect---SONY IS LIABLE- they had notice & time to fix the problem--Simply, They did not.

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