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Natasha Maksimovic, 21-year-old citizen of Canada, is the person who launched another class action lawsuit against Sony and its subsidiaries. The girl accused the corporation of allowing her and other PSN users’ private data to be compromised. The demanded damages could top $1 billion, as the plaintiffs ask Sony to pay the costs of credit monitoring services, along with fraud insurance coverage for 2 years. This is supposed to cover everyone who has been affected by the outage.
More bad news for Sony: the company faced another class action lawsuit over the hacker intrusion of its PSN. This one is already the third case, and the first two were both filed in California courtrooms. All of them accuse the company of allowing a leak to occur, and for failing to notify consumers in a timely manner.
This time Natasha Maksimovic from Canada is leading the charge against a number of Sony subsidiaries all around the world, including Sony Japan, Sony USA, and Sony Canada, for the breach of privacy. She claims damages over $1 billion, insisting that the company must pay for credit monitoring services and fraud insurance coverage for all suffered users for the next 2 years. Maksimovic claimed she can’t trust such a huge multi-national corporation as Sony, because the latter failed to protect her private data. Moreover, she accused the company of being focused more on protecting its products than its customers.
As you know, Sony Corporation recently admitted that the data from more than 70 million PSN accounts has leaked, which also includes credit card data. However, the law firm representing Natasha Maksimovic, McPhadden Samac Tuovi LLP, claimed that the company couldn’t say whether user credit/debit card data was also compromised. Meanwhile, the law firm acknowledged that the company did admit to and apologized for the intrusion, but pointed out that thus far the only compensation Sony has offered to its users was free PSP services and free content downloads. McPhadden Samac Tuovi also added that while Sony Corporation has advised US users about the availability of free credit reports, it didn’t do the same for the Canadian users.
Although the industry observers always criticize class action lawsuits for rather enriching the lawyers instead of contributing to the harmed party, this time the class action lawsuit seems to make a good point. Indeed, why do PSN users have to cover the costs of monitoring and protecting their credit histories because of Sony failing to do what it promised?
More bad news for Sony: the company faced another class action lawsuit over the hacker intrusion of its PSN. This one is already the third case, and the first two were both filed in California courtrooms. All of them accuse the company of allowing a leak to occur, and for failing to notify consumers in a timely manner.
This time Natasha Maksimovic from Canada is leading the charge against a number of Sony subsidiaries all around the world, including Sony Japan, Sony USA, and Sony Canada, for the breach of privacy. She claims damages over $1 billion, insisting that the company must pay for credit monitoring services and fraud insurance coverage for all suffered users for the next 2 years. Maksimovic claimed she can’t trust such a huge multi-national corporation as Sony, because the latter failed to protect her private data. Moreover, she accused the company of being focused more on protecting its products than its customers.
As you know, Sony Corporation recently admitted that the data from more than 70 million PSN accounts has leaked, which also includes credit card data. However, the law firm representing Natasha Maksimovic, McPhadden Samac Tuovi LLP, claimed that the company couldn’t say whether user credit/debit card data was also compromised. Meanwhile, the law firm acknowledged that the company did admit to and apologized for the intrusion, but pointed out that thus far the only compensation Sony has offered to its users was free PSP services and free content downloads. McPhadden Samac Tuovi also added that while Sony Corporation has advised US users about the availability of free credit reports, it didn’t do the same for the Canadian users.
Although the industry observers always criticize class action lawsuits for rather enriching the lawyers instead of contributing to the harmed party, this time the class action lawsuit seems to make a good point. Indeed, why do PSN users have to cover the costs of monitoring and protecting their credit histories because of Sony failing to do what it promised?
