C$1 billion suit filed against Sony

[Hop2089]

Less than a week after the first PlayStation Network-related class action suit was filed against Sony, a second legal claim has been initiated. While the first didn't ask for a specific amount, the second is quite clear on how much it wants from Sony--at least 1 billion dollars in damages.

But those aren't US dollars, they're Canadian ones.

The second suit was announced on Monday by the Toronto law firm of McPhadden Samac Tuovi LLP, with Sony Canada, Sony USA, and "other Sony entities" being named as defendants. The firm has commenced the proposed class action on behalf of 21-year-old Mississauga, Ontario resident Natasha Maksimovic. Described as a years-long PlayStation user, the lawsuit quotes Maksimovic as being outraged by the PSN outage and subsequent data breach.

"If you can't trust a huge multi-national corporation like Sony to protect your private information, who can you trust?" asked Maksimovic in a statement. "It appears to me that Sony focuses more on protecting its games than its PlayStation users."

The class action proposes the C$1 billion ($1.04 billion) in damages be used to pay for "costs of credit monitoring services and fraud insurance coverage for two years." It was unclear if the amount would only be applied to the cost of the 1 million Canadian PSN users affected by the still-ongoing outage, or all the 78 million global PSN users whose information may have been exposed.

As of press time, Sony had not responded to requests for comment.

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I bet more countries will do the same.

 

[Coto]

It was to be expected. Let´s see if they have time now to chase hackers.

 

[Raiser]

More like "just this money-grabbing biatch".

This is getting out of hand. No one's doing this to teach Sony a lesson; it's for the moneyz only.
Why not spend time and money on finding the ones who hacked the network instead?

 

[TLSS_N]

It's hard to see a PlayStation 4 in the works at this point.

 

[OmegaVesko]

More like "just this money-grabbing biatch".

This is getting out of hand. No one's doing this to teach Sony a lesson; it's for the moneyz only.
Why not spend time and money on finding the ones who hacked the network instead?

Because it wouldn't have happened in the first place if Sony actually had some security to begin with.

 

[The Catboy]

The fuck? I've always hated Sony, but this is just uncalled for. Suing them won't fix the problem, it will only make it worse

 

[ChaosBoi]

As much as I hated Sony's recent actions, people are just getting really greedy now. At the rate Sony's getting sued over something that users of their service chose to use "At their own risk", I don't think Sony will be able to afford putting up better security measures. I mean, yeah Sony should've done a better job at protecting their customers' information, but no company or business is absolutely safe from getting hacked.

 

[mad567]

I think Sony should move from Japan to the courthouse...
I bet their layers spend more time in the courtroom than living their lives...

 

[BobTheJoeBob]

This is a great opportunity for countries to get some monies!

 

[shadowkillerdrag]

Sigh everything is just going buck wild now -_-
I had to change all my passwords too, cuz some fruit cup created a gold farming WoW Account on my Blizzard Account -_-.

 

[Nollog]

"If you can't trust a huge multi-national corporation like Sony to protect your private information, who can you trust?" asked Maksimovic in a statement. "It appears to me that Sony focuses more on protecting its games than its PlayStation users."

TRUDAT.
'Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[DarkLG]

lol let's see where all this leads to possibly no more consoles from sony? who knows

 

[Nathan Drake]

Gotta love these greedy countries that are now making it a point to sue Sony for an extortionate amount of money. I'm guessing that nobody is seeking the improvement of their console, as they are all too caught up in taking up all of the Sony's time and resources. They may be a big company, but they have defined funding towards every portion of it. If one portion becomes too much of a hassle, it wouldn't be a big surprise to see it up and disappear.

People need to calm the fuck down and let Sony get something done.

 

[Law]

"If you can't trust a huge multi-national corporation like Sony to protect your private information, who can you trust?"

"If you can't trust a psychotic killer to not violently murder you, who can you trust?"

Only idiots trust corporations.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Sony can burn for all I care.

Sony didn't seem to care about Lik Sang, so why should I care about them now that they are in the same situation. Karma is a big bitch named Bertha.

 

[nando]

i really hate sony, but this is just ridiculous canada! eh?


and the canadian dollar is worth only a couple cents less than the us dollar, so i think they can stop making fun it.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

haha...how does it FEEL to get SUED Sony?!

RIP Lik Sang...and Karma is a very big man named BIG BUBBA.


.....cause how does it feel to get f*#ked??

 

[Foxi4]

"We want your money, buddy!"

"We're not your body, fwend!"

"We're not your fwend, mate!"

"We're not your mate, buddy!"

*goes on... and on... and on...*

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As the old saying say, "Canada will see Sony's money like pigs see the sky". For the less bright lightbulbs around here, a pig's neck is too thick and its spine is constructed in such a way that looking upwards is nearly impossible.

 

[Anakir]

i really hate sony, but this is just ridiculous canada! eh?


and the canadian dollar is worth only a couple cents less than the us dollar, so i think they can stop making fun it.

Stop making fun of it? When you obviously made a "joke" which isn't extremely outdated at all. By the way, CAD is worth more than USD at the moment. They get more than $1b once its converted.

 

[Foxi4]

i really hate sony, but this is just ridiculous canada! eh?


and the canadian dollar is worth only a couple cents less than the us dollar, so i think they can stop making fun it.

Stop making fun of it? When you obviously made a "joke" which isn't extremely outdated at all. By the way, CAD is worth more than USD at the moment. They get more than $1b once its converted.


Exactly.

1 USD = 0,957597579 CAD

I suppose the U.S blew all their money while searching for terrorists and dictators. SHAAAAME.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... Uhh... Err..."

~G. W. Bush