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"The first lawsuit has been filed against Sony in response to the breach of the PlayStation Network. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of Kristopher Johns, 36, of Birmingham, Alabama. The suit claims that Sony did not take &amp;quot;reasonable care to protect, encrypt and secure the private and sensitive data of its users&amp;quot;. Another claim in the suit is that Sony did not notify users in time &amp;quot;to make an informed decision as to whether to change credit card numbers, close the exposed accounts, check their credit reports, or take other mitigating actions&amp;quot;. Prior to the lawsuit filing, Sony issued a statement insisting that it had not been slow to notify users. The lawsuit is currently seeking class action status, and is asking for monetary compensation and free credit card monitoring to be provided at Sony&amp;#039;s expense.  It is likely that this is the first of many such lawsuits that will be filed as a result of the hacker attack on the PlayStation Network. Earlier today Sony released an FAQ sheet to help instruct users whose accounts were compromised by last week&amp;#039;s attack.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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