LinkedIn hits back at US data breach lawsuit claims
LinkedIn has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a disgruntled user in the wake of its recent data breach, accusing the firm of failing to keep information about its members safe.
Earlier this month it emerged that the passwords of nearly 6.5 million of the social networking site’s users were posted in a Russian web forum.
On Monday, one of the site’s members, Katie Szpyrka, filed a $5million class action complaint against the site with the United States District Court in the Northern District of California. It claimed LinkedIn had failed to safeguard users’ “digitally stored personally identifiable information(PII)” and violated its own user agreement and privacy policy by not using “industry standard protocols and technology”.
