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Final Fantasy 8 getting PC re-release (in Japan)
Sony facing another PSN breach lawsuit
by Steve Watts, Jun 24, 2011 7:30am PDTA new suit filed by customers against Sony makes a series of specific allegations against the company regarding its actions just before and during the PlayStation Network breach, Reuters reports. According to the suit filed in a San Diego federal court on Monday, Sony laid off a "substantial percentage" of the Sony Online Entertainment division, including some from its Network Operations Center. The report cites an anonymous witness.
The suit also alleges that Sony had been experiencing smaller breaches of security prior to the attack, and that it spent money to install firewalls and security measures to protect its own corporate data, but not user data.
Sony is already facing a class-action lawsuit over the PlayStation Network data breach. This new suit is separate, but seemingly has much more detail. We'll be watching it closely.
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A new suit filed against Sony regarding the PlayStation Network data breach alleges that Sony knew of a threat due to smaller attacks, laid off several network security workers just before, and protected its own data more carefully than user data.
A new suit filed against Sony regarding the PlayStation Network data breach alleges that Sony knew of a threat due to smaller attacks, laid off several network security workers just before, and protected its own data more carefully than user data. : Shacknews
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I would expect the lawsuits floating around are going to take a good hard swing at this line from the SOE Privacy Policy.
we have in place reasonable technical and organizational security measures to protect your Personal Information against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, or against unauthorized disclosure or access to the information we collect online.
http://www.soe.com/sonyonline/privacy.vm#OurCommitment
My point would be against the organizational security measures. The lawsuit is probably going after the reasonable technical bit.
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