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Now news of the first lawsuit is trickling onto the Internet. We very much doubt it will be the last.

Kristopher Johns of Birmingham, Alabama today filed a suit against the Japanese platform holder, citing failures of the company to take "reasonable care to protect, encrypt, and secure the private and sensitive data of its users". Obviously Kristopher knows more than the rest of us — as far as we're aware there's not yet evidence to prove any of those points.

"This action arises from Sony’s failure to maintain adequate computer data security of consumer personal data and financial data, including, but not limited to credit card data and the reasonably foreseeable exploitation of such inadequate security at defendant Sony by computer 'hackers,' causing the compromise of the privacy of private information of approximately seventy-seven (77) Million consumer credit card account holders,"  the lawsuit states.

"Plaintiff is informed and believes that this breach of security was caused by Sony’s negligence in data security, including its failure to maintain a proper firewall and computer security system, failure to properly encrypt data, its unauthorized storage and retention of data, its violation of Payment Card Industry Data Standard(s) and rules and regulations it was bound to obey for the benefit of consumers concerning the storage of consumers’ private identifying transaction and credit card information, and its violation of California laws requiring the implementation and maintenance of security for customer information."

Expect many more of these suits to appear over the coming days.