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Litigation

Dec. 17, 2014

Sony likely to face rare employee class action over hacking scandal

A much bigger problem might soon visit Sony Pictures Entertainment than the media publishing catty emails sent among studio executives: A lawsuit filed by employees whose private data was made public in the massive hacking of the studio.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - A much bigger problem might soon visit Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. than the media publishing catty emails sent among studio executives: A lawsuit filed by the more than 3,500 employees whose private data - including health information - was made public in the massive hacking of the motion picture studio.


Employee class action privacy lawsuits are extraordinarily rare, observers s...

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