shouting loudly

Sony still paying for rootkit fiasco

The company has already settled and begun paying in Texas and California, but Sony still has other legal problems ahead.

The company has agreed to $1.5 million in fines and cash settlements with customers in the two biggest states. A consortium of 13 other states are looking for a similar deal. The Federal Trade Commission is also still investigating.

The lesson? Don’t preemptively decide that all your customers are also thieves and hack their computers accordingly.