A California court has upheld a class-action suit against Sony in which nine of the corporation’s 15,000 victims of the 2014 breach claim Sony showed “negligence, breach of implied contract … and violation of the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act,” SC Magazine reports. While “Sony argued that the plaintiffs endured no current or threatened injury that is impending,” U.S. District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner disagreed. “The information included financial, medical and other personally identifiable information, was used to threaten the individual victims and their families and was posted on the Internet,” Klausner stated, adding, these “alone are sufficient to establish a credible threat of real and immediate harm, or certainly impending injury.”
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