Lawsuit Claims Sony Canned Security Staff Just Before Data Breach

Stoobalou writes "A lawsuit filed this week suggests that Sony sacked a group of employees from its network security division just two weeks before the company's servers were hacked and its customers' credit card details were leaked. The suit, which seeks class action status, is being brought by victims of the massive data breach that took place in April."

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Re:So they sacked them too early

[tjkwentus]

Or too late

Or the sacked were involved in the breach.

Who cares why they fired them- I want Sony $$

[gearloos]

I could honestly care less why they sacked them. I just want something out of SONY. For the PS3 storing open text negligence, for taking away a feature I paid for (Linux- Other OS) and not giving a rats ass about me, for the Rootkit they put on my system with no real punishment, for the liars that lobbied the Bluray to win over the far superior technology that was HDDVD, for well, "EVERYTHING SONY". For the rootkit alone, their senior staff should have been criminally prosecuted. If I was to put a rootkit on a SONY Server by giving an employee a cd to listen to at work, I'd certainly be in jail. The best part- I went to GTPlanet (for the Gran Turismo Game, GT5) after this and the dam Fanboi mentality of today is every post I saw that complained or said anything remotely bad was shut down by 100 posts saying Sony is such a great company for trying to rebuild everything and that it is so great they are looking out by telling everyone about it..blah blah blah I've had enough- Boycott these thieving asshats. I want my $0.99 from the Class Action Suit. It's almost as good as a company changing the law like Verizon and ATT with their "Unlimited" Plans that are actually 5GB or less.... Truth in advertising? But I digress... I only mention them because they are also tops up there on the list with Sony of companies that do what they please and colude but yet give lots of $$ to lobby their cause to a corrupt (or rather incompetent) judicial system.