Recently, security and safety of personal information of users stored in a site’s database were put into danger and compromise after hackers launched attacks to several high profile websites such as those under Sony Corporation including the sonypictures.com and Sony Playstation Network.
Due to the risks that the hacking incident had brought, Sony had said that they were willing to pay anyone (of their members and users) who was affected financially of the breach, however, one of the company’s insurers had reacted towards Sony’s statement.
As a result, Zurich American Insurance had went to court in New York to raise their concern stressing that it is no longer part of their service as insurer to pay for those affected in the mentioned breach of information due to hacking.
Their appeal to the court includes the clarity of the rules and policies they had established with their arrangement to Sony that the damage resulted by such breach will not be covered in the insurance policy. In such a way, they are not liable to pay for compensation of any Sony member who was affected by the cyber attacks.
For Sony Playstation Network alone, there were 77 million accounts which were compromised.
The firm had offered such deal however, several users still went to court to express their complaints.
To recall, after the intrusion was detected in Sony Playstation Network, the management had shut down the site for almost a month in order to realign and tighten the security of their sites and databases.
The chain of hacking incidents happening early this year had put several high-profile Corporation and companies in the midst of criticisms especially on the concern of data security.
Nintendo, Citigroups, PBS.com, FBI affiliate and Lockheed Martin were just few of the other hacked sites.
Identity of the hackers up to this time were still not determined however, during those times of successive launched of hacking activities, two groups came out and claimed the attacks. They were “LulzSec” and “Anonymous.”