{"id":3459,"date":"2011-04-27T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T18:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2011-04-27T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T18:33:15","slug":"sony-sued-for-psn-security-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/sony-sued-for-psn-security-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Sued for PSN Security Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/people.ign.com\/Reilly-IGN\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sony_playstation_32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3437\" title=\"sony_playstation_32\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sony_playstation_32-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sony_playstation_32-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sony_playstation_32.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A class action lawsuit was filed against Sony a day after the  company publicly admitted that personal information from PlayStation  Network was compromised by security breach. The lawsuit was filed by the  Rothken Law Firm today in a California court and alleges Sony &#8220;failed  to take reasonable care to protect, encrypt, and secure the private and  sensitive data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Sony said it <strong>believes an unauthorized person<\/strong> obtained PSN user information, including members&#8217; names, addresses,  birthdays, and login passwords. The company said there was no evidence  that credit card information was stolen, but did not rule out that  possibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We brought this lawsuit on behalf of consumers to learn the full extent  of Sony PlayStation Network data security practices and the data loss  and to seek a remedy for consumers. We are hopeful that Sony will take  this opportunity to learn from the network vulnerabilities, provide a  remedy to consumers who entrusted their sensitive data to Sony, and lead  the way in data security best practices going forward,&#8221; said Ira P.  Rothken an attorney who filed the class action complaint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sony&#8217;s breach of its customers&#8217; trust is staggering. Sony promised its  customers that their information would be kept private. One would think  that a large multinational corporation like Sony has strong protective  measures in place to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of personal  information, including credit card information. Apparently, Sony  doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; commented J.R. Parker, co-counsel in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit seeks monetary compensation for the data loss and &#8220;loss of  use of the Sony PlayStation Network, credit monitoring, and other relief  according to proof.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A class action lawsuit was filed against Sony a day after the company publicly admitted that personal information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}