Former employees sue Sony for failing to protect their data
Two former Sony certainly don't appreciate the recent hacking against the company. In fact, they're furious.
However, they do not direct their anger at the hackers, but at the company, probably because they know that they could not do anything, since no one knows who the hackers. The company, however, is a more “visible target”.
Michael Corona, an employee who worked for the company from 2004-2007, and Christina Mathis, who worked for the company between 2000 and 2002, filed a complaint in California federal court, essentially accusing the company of incompetence.
The company held personal information such as their social security numbers, healthcare records, salaries and other confidential information that was exposed by the attack by the Guardians of Peace hacker group .
The complaint is directed against the company and states that it “failed to design and implement appropriate firewalls and information systems, failed to properly and adequately encrypt data, lost control of it and failed to timely recover the encryption of the Sony Network, and stored and maintained the personal information of the plaintiffs and other members on its inadequately protected network.”
According to the plaintiffs, Sony has used DDoS on websites hosting its stolen material (such as movies), but does not do the same for its current and former employees.
