Cybersecurity
Sony Faces Lawsuit, Regulators’ Probe Over PlayStation Hack
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Sony Corp. faced a legal and regulatory backlash over delays in telling 77 million subscribers that their personal account data may have been stolen by a hacker.
A lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in San Francisco alleges the delay left PlayStation users exposed to losses related to any credit-card data theft. Officials in Connecticut, the U.K. and Ireland began inquiries. Makiko Noda, a Tokyo-based Sony spokeswoman, declined to comment, as the company hadn’t received a notice of legal action.