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LinkedIn sued for $5 million over data breach
- ams6110 14y agoIf it turns out that the LinkedIn breach was limited to customer passwords and not corresponding email addresses, it will be that much harder for plaintiffs to prove they were harmed It's almost beyond belief that the passwords were leaked without the corresponding usernames, email addresses, and other profile information. It's possible, sure, that the passwords were stored in a separate database with separate credentials and only linked to profiles with an opaque ID, but since they were simple unsalted hashes how likely is it that was the case? On the other hand, I don't see any substantion of the claim by Katie Szpyrka that she suffered $5M in damages as a result of the breach.