Lawsuit Claims Sony Canned Security Staff Just Before Data Breach

Stoobalou writes "A lawsuit filed this week suggests that Sony sacked a group of employees from its network security division just two weeks before the company's servers were hacked and its customers' credit card details were leaked. The suit, which seeks class action status, is being brought by victims of the massive data breach that took place in April."

Re:So they sacked them too early

[tjkwentus]

Or too late

Or the sacked were involved in the breach.

Who cares why they fired them- I want Sony $$

[gearloos]

I could honestly care less why they sacked them. I just want something out of SONY. For the PS3 storing open text negligence, for taking away a feature I paid for (Linux- Other OS) and not giving a rats ass about me, for the Rootkit they put on my system with no real punishment, for the liars that lobbied the Bluray to win over the far superior technology that was HDDVD, for well, "EVERYTHING SONY". For the rootkit alone, their senior staff should have been criminally prosecuted. If I was to put a rootkit on a SONY Server by giving an employee a cd to listen to at work, I'd certainly be in jail. The best part- I went to GTPlanet (for the Gran Turismo Game, GT5) after this and the dam Fanboi mentality of today is every post I saw that complained or said anything remotely bad was shut down by 100 posts saying Sony is such a great company for trying to rebuild everything and that it is so great they are looking out by telling everyone about it..blah blah blah I've had enough- Boycott these thieving asshats. I want my $0.99 from the Class Action Suit. It's almost as good as a company changing the law like Verizon and ATT with their "Unlimited" Plans that are actually 5GB or less.... Truth in advertising? But I digress... I only mention them because they are also tops up there on the list with Sony of companies that do what they please and colude but yet give lots of $$ to lobby their cause to a corrupt (or rather incompetent) judicial system.

SONY and Meetings

[Anonymous Coward]

I've worked at SONY, though not in the security group. To do anything, there were at least 10 meetings to "decide to do something" followed by another 20 meetings to decide "WHAT" to do. Often, the WHAT wouldn't be possible, because the doers weren't invited.

SONY can spend lots and lots of money on things they believe will make them money and $0 on stuff that doesn't ... like security.

Where I worked was filled with IBM-Japan running AIX systems. Half of these people were really sharp and the other half, well, not so much. I never met or heard anything about the Data Security team, but that wasn't my role while I was there, so it isn't surprising.

SONY wasn't much different from any other large company that hadn't needed to worry about security previously. I bet going forward SONY will make a security review part of every project going forward. It will be a checklist item that leads to 15 other checklists.

Pick any other consumer company, perhaps Emerson or Westinghouse. Do you think they have much real data security either?