{"id":3542,"date":"2011-05-05T13:26:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2011-05-05T13:26:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:26:37","slug":"sony-being-subpoenaed-by-state-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/sony-being-subpoenaed-by-state-of-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Being Subpoenaed by State of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PlayStation<\/p>\n

This week is just getting worse for Sony. Yesterday, we learned of a one billion dollar\u00a0 lawsuit filed against the company, and this morning, Bloomberg is reporting that Sony is being subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general Eric Schneiderman.<\/p>\n

The subpoena is reportedly part of a consumer protection inquiry, so Schneiderman is looking for details on what Sony told customers about the security of their networks, according to Bloomberg’s source.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sony’s Patrick Seybold said in an e-mailed statement that \u201cwe will review and respond to this request and will continue to work with law enforcement authorities as they investigate the criminal attack on our network.”<\/p>\n

While New York hasn’t publicly revealed the details of their inquiry into the PSN\u00a0outage, it’s likely that part of their investigation will focus on what kind of guarantees consumers were given about the security of their personal data. In other words, how safe did Sony say they would keep your data?<\/p>\n

Another likely area of investigation: Did Sony do a good job of letting consumers know what was happening once the company found out there was a breach of data?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week is just getting worse for Sony. Yesterday, we learned of a one billion dollar\u00a0 lawsuit filed<\/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-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","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=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3543,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions\/3543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}