Sony ’s ex - employeesare suingthe company over forfailing to secureits electronic computer organization and exposing their information .
Two former employees have file a class action lawsuit against Sony Pictures . Michael Corona , an employee from 2004 to 2007 , and Christina Mathis , who figure out at Sony between 2000 and 2002,filed the complaintin the federal court in California yesterday .
originally this month , a cyber-terrorist grouping that shout out itself Guardians of Peacestarted leakinghuge treasure trove of Sony ’s files and electronic mail , revealing social security numbers , health care records , salaries , and other secret information about employees and former employees . People are , understandably , incredibly pissed offthat Sony allow itself to be this vulnerable .
The complaint acquire Sony to task for failing to protect its employees even afterit was cognizant of major vulnerabilities :
Sony owed a legal responsibility to Plaintiffs and the other Class member to maintain reasonable and tolerable security measures to procure , protect , and safeguard their PII put in on its web . Sony breached that duty by one or more of the conform to activity or inactions : betray to design and implement appropriate firewalls and computer system , neglect to in good order and adequately inscribe information , losing control of and failing to timely re - bring in control over Sony web ’s cryptographic keys , and improperly store and retaining Plaintiffs ’ and the other Class phallus ’ PII on its inadequately protected web .
It also manoeuver out that Sony was already conversant with the danger of being hack , bringing up the clock time Anonymoushacked Playstation in 2011as grounds that the caller should ’ve been far more prepared for another breach .
One of the most pesky aspects of Sony ’s response to its hack is brought up in the complaint , compare Sony ’s scramble to batten its unreleased entertainment to the agency it informed and advert to the leaked information of its employee :
Sony has already acted to protect itself by using hacking method of its own to combat illegal downloads of its movies that hackers publically free after the Data Breach , fit in to Recode . Specifically , it is harnessing AmazonWeb Services ( the backend that host Netflix , Instagram and many others ) to launch a distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attack on website hosting the slip assets .
Sony has not , however , similarly acted to protect its current and former employees .
The complaint also calls the jade “ an epic incubus , much better suited to a cinematic thriller than existent biography . ” I ’m not sure the political hack would make for neat cinema but it definitely sound likea much beneficial moviethan The Interview .
you could understand the whole lawsuit here :
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