Reuters: A U.S. judge rejected Sony Pictures Entertainment’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by nine former employees who claimed their personal data was stolen in a 2014 hacking tied to the studio’s release of a comedy set in North Korea, “The Interview.” Plaintiffs will be allowed to pursue claims that the Sony unit was negligent and violated a California confidentiality law by spurning security measures to stop the theft of employees’ salary and health data, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information. The former workers said Sony’s negligence caused them economic harm by forcing them to beef up credit monitoring to address their greater risk of identity theft.