Linkedin Sued For $5 Million

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An allegation was thrust on LinkedIn Corporation by a female resident of Illinois,U.S.A.,Katie Szpyrka.The allegation was about the loopholes of the security system of the professional networking website,as a result of which passwords of a number exceeding 6 million customers stand stolen.Reportedly,the stolen passwords were found on websites which are considered hangouts for computer hackers.

An estimate of the total number of members on LinkedIn is close to 160 million,and the issue of massive breach of data lead to the class action law suit put up at a federal court in San Jose,California.

Katie,the initiator of the lawsuit,is a member of the website and through her law firm from Chicago,placed papers in the court stating that LinkedIn's policy for security were not in accordance with the set industry standards for securing database.

A spokesperson from LinkedIn on the other hand said that it was all fabricated by lawyers who have been trying to reap benefits of this situation and that no member accounts have been affected by data breach.

However,according to the experts in the legal domain,the class appealing for action against data breach,will actually have to prove damage as a consequence of the breach. There have been precedents,where success was achieved against a social gaming company RockYou on grounds of internet data breach,the notable feature in this case was the presentation of acceptable evidence.

The details of the case are:-- Katie Szpyrka v.LinkedIn Corporation,U.S.District Court for the Northern District of California,No.12---3088

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Don't we live in a wonderful society? You can work and slave and build up a company only to have some idiot come along and sue you for something that might happen? Doesn't that fall into the catagory to thought crimes? Who get's the 5 million by the way? That is of course, in the event that linked in looses the case. But even if they don't loose what is it going to cost them in lawyers fee's to protect their company? Seems to me that no matter who you are or what you do, somebody is going to come along and figure out a way to screw you out of what you have worked for to earn.