Sony fired employees before data theft, says the process

Sony fired employees of a unit responsible for the security of your network two weeks prior to the invasion of the great systems of company data by hackers, according to a process to court this week handed. In addition, the company spent a fortune to protect corporate information itself, although it failed to do the same with the data of its customers, the report said.

In the process delivered to the court of San Diego (USA) on Monday (20), a set of customers that Sony claims the company knew what was at great risk of hacker attack after suffering previously, other minor intrusions.

The text also states that the company laid off a "substantial percentage" of its workforce at Sony Online Entertainment, including "several" employees of the network operations center, division responsible for the security of these systems, attributing the claim to a confidential source.

The Japanese company has come under fire since April, when hackers accessed the personal information of 77 million users of the platform PlayStation Network games and multimedia Qriocity. At the time, Sony announced that data from customer credit cards were stolen.

After the incident, Sony also revealed that hackers had stolen data from more than 25 million users of other platform, network PC games Sony Online Entertainment, on May 2.

Sony did not return requests for comment on Thursday (23). 

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