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Settlement proposed in Canadian Sony hacking case
Double outages in 2011 disrupted gamers A settlement has been proposed in a Canadian lawsuit focusing on hacks of Sony’s PlayStation Network (“PSN”) and Sony Computer Entertainment (“SOE”). The suit, filed in Cheap Converse Shoes May 2011, grew out of two apparent system hacks that potentially exposed gamers’ information. Lead plaintiff Natasha Maksimovic, a 21-year-old …