Saturday, September 21, 2013

LinkedIn sued by users who say it hacked email accounts, stole contact lists


A group of LinkedIn users are suing the social networking site for allegedly hacking into their email accounts. In a complaint filed in a San Jose federal court this week, the users accuse LinkedIn of accessing their email so the company can mine out a list of contacts and send spam-like emails. The suit claims that "Linkedln is able to download these addresses without requesting the password for the external email accounts or obtaining users' consent."


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/21/4756212/linkedin-accused-of-hacking-user-email-lawsuit

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