Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against LinkedIn

[snakeair]

You remember the password mess not to long ago? My account wasn't effected but I made a new password anyways. Check out this blog post folks.

Since going public LinkedIn has managed to record record profits, grow quarterly and attract millions of new users. Unfortunately the company has also failed to live up to security measures which has led to a $5 million class action lawsuit.

Last month 6 million user passwords were leaked to a Russian website and the company has been hit with several phishing scams.

The full lawsuit was uploaded to Scribd by the user jeff_roberts881 and was filed by Katie Szpyrka “on behalf of all others similarly situated” against the “LinkedIn Corporation.”

The lawsuit specifically addresses LinkedIn’s inability to protect email addresses, passwords and login credentials. The lawsuit claims that the lack of security is in direction violation of LinkedIn’s own “User Agreement and Privacy Policy.”

At the heart of the argument will be the fact that LinkedIn did not implement better security, for example...

Continued at: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/06/20...inst-linkedin/

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/18/47534.htm

[Dreamrage]

If you don't mind, I am going to pass this along my forum ranks. This is a major slip up and with the majority of us using linkedin, this could be catastrophic. What I don't get is why. Why would they ignore industry standards when they know that it needs to be followed and adhered to. Did they maybe think they were invincible or unhackable?

[snakeair]

I think they thought they was invincible.