shouting loudly

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.