Cnet reports the lawsuit was filed on behalf of Birmingham, Alabama resident Kristopher Johns in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California. It’s seeking to be a class-action lawsuit and claims Sony did not take “reasonable care to protect, encrypt, and secure the private and sensitive data of its users.” As a result, it prevented PSN users from being able “to make an informed decision as to whether to change credit card numbers, close the exposed accounts, check their credit reports, or take other mitigating actions.”
Besides monetary compensation, the lawsuit is looking for free credit report monitoring — one of the things Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal called for in a letter sent to SCEA president Jack Tretton yesterday.
