More than 100 million customer account details and 12 million unencrypted credit card numbers were compromised. The Texas Comptroller’s Office was exposed for nearly a full year on an unencrypted publicly accessible server. Texas now faces two class-action lawsuits as a result of this breach, one of which is going for a $1,000 statutory penalty for each affected individual. According to reports out this week, Sony has spent $171 million so far on customer remediation, legal costs, and technical improvements in the wake of the breach.”]
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