Wed, May 04, 2011 | 10:40 BST

Canadian lawsuit demands $1 billion in damages from Sony

A Canadian citizen has filed a PlayStation Network-related class action suit against Sony, demanding at least C$1 billion dollars in damages from the corporation.

21-year old Natasha Maksimovic thinks that Sony owes C$1 billion ($1.04 billion) in damages to PSN users.

The suit was announced on Monday by the Toronto law firm of McPhadden Samac Tuovi LLP, with Sony Canada, Sony USA, and “other Sony entities” being named as defendants.

The firm filed the class action suit on behalf of the 21 year old Canadian, who’s a resident of Mississauga, Ontario. Described as a years-long PlayStation user, the lawsuit quotes Maksimovic as being outraged due to the PSN data theft and outage.

“If you can’t trust a huge multi-national corporation like Sony to protect your private information, who can you trust?” asked Maksimovic in a statement. “It appears to me that Sony focuses more on protecting its games than its PlayStation users.”

The class action proposes the C$1 billion in damages should be used to pay for “costs of credit monitoring services and fraud insurance coverage for two years.” However, it fails to mention if the amount would only be used to incur the cost of the 1 million odd Canadian PSN users affected by the data theft and outage, or all the 78 million global PSN users who’ve suffered as a result.

The first class action suit over the PSN security breach was filed by a Alabama-based man last week.

PSN is due to partially return at some point this week.

Thanks, Gamespot.

28 comments

Erthazus
04/05/11, 10:37 am

Fantastic

first hackers, now vultures.

Deacon
04/05/11, 10:38 am

good luck with that…

Erthazus
04/05/11, 10:39 am

“21 year old Canadian”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAYMJnO9LBQ

Kabby
04/05/11, 10:40 am

Did they get Doctor Evil to conference call with Sony and ask for “ONE BILLION DOLLARS”?

Blerk
04/05/11, 10:41 am

I’m sure she’ll have massive success with this.

DocCylon
04/05/11, 10:42 am

Argh, humanity you make me sick.

mojo
04/05/11, 10:46 am

“If you can’t trust a huge multi-national corporation like Sony to protect your private information, who can you trust?”

ehhrr, yes..
honestly, if u trust a multi-national corporation in any way, ur doing something wrong.

Erthazus
04/05/11, 10:58 am

@7, well, she is (or was) Sony fanboy

minxamo
04/05/11, 11:21 am

I think she mad.

#10

Kerplunk
04/05/11, 12:00 pm

Calm down dear

#11

loveaya
04/05/11, 12:07 pm

C’mon,girl,you can trust me~

#12

Nozz
04/05/11, 12:20 pm

The rage continues…

#13

NightCrawler1970
04/05/11, 12:20 pm

Wow, that’s allot of money for buying games man…..
1 billion dollars woooh,

Shopping list
Porsche GT3 fully tuned…
Ferrari Maranello
Mercedes Benz C63 AMG
Audi RS8
lotus_exige black edition
Lamborghini Diablo
Mclaren F1
Bugatti Veyron 16.4
Maybach limo edition…
Golf R32 tuned by ABT.DE(imported from Wolfsburg) not from Mexico….
Walmart shopping car will be Hummer 3 lmao….

The rest will spend it on PS3 and Xbox….

#14

OrbitMonkey
04/05/11, 12:30 pm

You know I dropped my ps3 on my foot once… Think i’ll call Injury Lawyers for You, try to get a million

#15

NightCrawler1970
04/05/11, 12:33 pm

@14, thats very original… u got sense of humor…

#16

marijnlems
04/05/11, 12:41 pm

“If you can’t trust a huge multi-national corporation like Sony (…), who can you trust?”

And she said this while keeping a straight face? Wow, I’m impressed.

#17

OrbitMonkey
04/05/11, 12:43 pm

^ oh your too kind *blushes*

#18

OlderGamer
04/05/11, 12:44 pm

Excesive much?

While I do believe that Sony should be held liable for any damages related to loss of users personal information, this is just stupid. Prolly going to be a lot of this type of thing to be honest.

#19

Mike
04/05/11, 12:46 pm

Awesome.

#20

Christopher Jack
04/05/11, 12:50 pm

That’s around $100 for each affected member, wouldn’t make sense unless there’s actual proof of stolen credit cards details & even after that, Sony should only be reimbursing those who have proof of their money being stolen.

#21

NightCrawler1970
04/05/11, 12:50 pm

@16 photo photo of that chick… link link… oops forget to say PLEEAASSE!!!!
lmao

#22

NightCrawler1970
04/05/11, 12:54 pm

@20, seriously $100,- bucks? well someone unauthorize withdraw from our account ammount of $39,99 EA game, we have bankstatement.. so i get $100,- back from Sony??? cool!!! 60 bucks psn prepay card, awesome

#23

NeoSquall
04/05/11, 1:27 pm

@7 point. set. match.

On to the next twat that thinks he/she can feast on this scandal.

#24

Rad430
04/05/11, 1:34 pm

@1.vultures .
yeah you’ve got a point there.
surely this childish acts are pointless.

#25

Christopher Jack
04/05/11, 2:02 pm

@22, That’s what this bitch is asking for, $100 per each account with attached credit card details.

#26

Dr.Ghettoblaster
04/05/11, 2:47 pm