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The
plaintiffs' have until Oct. 19 to submit a motion for
preliminary approval of the proposed settlement case, according
to a court filing. No additional details on the settlement were
made public.
Sony Pictures declined to comment on the settlement.
The news was first reported by Hollywood and media news website
deadline.com.
In June, a U.S. judge had rejected a bid by Sony Pictures, the
entertainment arm of Sony Corp, to dismiss the lawsuit.
The former workers, who had sought class-action status on the
suit, had said Sony's negligence caused them economic harm by
forcing them to beef up credit monitoring to address their
greater risk of identity theft.
The attack, which surfaced in November, wiped out massive
amounts of data and led to the online distribution of email,
sensitive employee data and pirated copies of new movies.
(Reporting by Lehar Maan in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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