Credit card fraud reported, lawsuit filed against Sony

It was only a matter of time that the PlayStation Network (PSN)’s security breach experiences fallouts of sorts – with a lawsuit being filed and subscribers reporting credit card fraud. Rothken Law Firm of California has filed suit on behalf of Alabama PSN subscriber Kristopher Johns, in addition to other people who have experience the outage. It is noted that the firm specializes in class action, civil litigation, and high technology law, but we are quite sure that Sony’s team of legal eagles themselves are no pushover concerning all that they have gone through in the past. 

The lawsuit states that “this action is brought on behalf of plaintiff individually, as representative of the common or general interest and as class representatives for all other similarly situated nationwide against Sony to redress the defendant’s breach of warranty, negligent data security, violations of consumers’ rights of privacy, failure to protect those rights, and failure and on-going refusal to timely inform consumers of unauthorized third party access to their credit card account and other nonpublic and private financial information.”

It will also address the users’ inability to access the network which they actually paid money for, and will be looking for compensation in the form of undisclosed monetary damages. Of course, to be more specific, it did mention that the paintiff(s) expect some sort of redress for “defective” PlayStation consoles, in addition to PSN and Qriocity services – not to mention all legal fees and credit report monitoring covered.

Sony is clearly at fault here, so it will be quite the tightrope for them to walk as they do not want to ostracize its customer base further. We will be keeping a tight lid on things and hope that everything will be resolved sooner rather than later – and in an amicable fashion, to boot.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Gaming
Tags: lawsuit, playstation network, psn