Before it was hacked apart, leaving its thousands of employees vulnerable to a lifetime of identity theft risk, Sony made a conscious decision that cybersecurity just wasn’t that big of a deal. Now those employees are going to try to get some payback in court.

This week, Variety reports, U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner gave a group of former employees the green light to sue Sony Pictures Entertainment for shoddy security practices:

...is ruling keeps alive litigation that was filed in the wake of the data breach, with ex-employees alleging that their personal information was compromised and that Sony failed to take adequate measures to protect it.

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Klausner...noted that the plaintiffs claim that their information has been used to send threatening emails to employees and their families.

The suit (embedded in full below) points out that Sony ignored both warnings and actual attacks against its computer networks, and flags an infamously dismissive remark by former IT chief Jason Spaltro:

“I will not invest $10 million to avoid a possible $1 million loss,” he said in the same interview.

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