14 DAY TRIAL // A judge has dismissed the class-action lawsuit filed against LinkedIn by Katie Szpyrka and Khalilah Gilmore-Wright as a result of the massive data breach suffered by the company last year.
According to the order to dismiss, provided by DataBreaches.net, Northern California US District Judge Edward J. Davila argued that the plaintiffs couldn’t prove that they actually suffered any harm because of the incident.
Szpyrka and Gilmore-Wright , who were premium users, sued LinkedIn after their passwords and the ones of other 6.5 million users were published online by hackers. The plaintiffs accused the company of failing to properly secure their information.
Davila argued that the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement were the same for both paying and non-paying members, and that premium members actually paid for more advanced tools and capabilities, not for improved security.
In addition, the judge said the plaintiffs didn’t even allege that they read the Privacy Policy on which their claims of misrepresentations were based.