Sony sacked security staff prior to big breach
A lawsuit filed this week suggests that Sony sacked a bunch of employees from its network security division just two weeks before the company's servers were hacked and its customers' credit card details leaked.
The suit, which seeks class action status, is being brought by Felix Cortorreal, Jimmy Cortorreal, and Jacques Daoud Jr. - all victims of the massive data breach that took place in April - "on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated."
According to copies of the court documents obtained by thinq_, the trio accuse Sony of a failure to adequately protect customer data. "According to information provided by industry experts and confidential informants," the papers claim, "Sony knew that its inadequate security systems placed it at increased risk for the attack, which directly and proximately caused the theft of its Customers' Personal Information and a month-long interruption of the PlayStation and SPE Networks."
