NEW YORK (AP) -- Two former employees of Sony Pictures Entertainment are suing the company for not preventing hackers from stealing nearly 50,000 Social Security numbers, salary details and other personal information from current and former workers.

Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters in Culver City, Calif.
Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters in Culver City, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, FIle)
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The federal suit alleges that emails and other information leaked by the hackers show that Sony's information-technology department and its top lawyer believed its security system was vulnerable to attack, but that company did not act on those warnings. The plaintiffs are asking for compensation for fixing credit reports, monitoring bank account and other costs as well as damages.

The suit filed Tuesday in U.S. district court in California seeks class-action status.

Highly sensitive material from the entertainment unit of Tokyo-based Sony Corp. has been leaked almost daily since hackers broke into its computer networks last month. New threats from the shadowy group calling itself Guardians of Peace were issued Tuesday.

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