Sony, Ex-Employees Tentatively Settle Class Claims Over Data Breach

Mealey's (September 3, 2015, 2:17 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — In a jointly filed stipulation on Sept. 2, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and a putative class of former employees whose personally identifying information (PII) was purportedly compromised in a 2014 network breach asked a California federal court to continue existing hearing and certification deadlines, citing a newly reached “agreement in principle to settle all” existing claims (Michael Corona, et al. v. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., No. 2:14-cv-09600, C.D. Calif.)....