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EBay faces class action suit over data breach |
July 24, 2014
EBay faces a class action suit in a U.S. federal court over a security breach earlier this year.The consumer privacy class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday by Collin Green, a citizen of the state of Louisiana, alleged that the security breach was the result of eBay’s inadequate security in regard to protecting identity information of its millions of customers.The e-commerce site’s failure to properly secure the information “has caused, and is continuing to cause, damage to its customers, the putative class members herein,” according to the complaint by Green which asks for class action status.EBay informed users in May that it was aware of unauthorized access to eBay systems that may have exposed some customer information. The company said there was no evidence that financial data was compromised. The company subsequently advised users to change their eBay passwords as the attack compromised a database containing eBay user passwords.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2457880/ebay-faces-class-action-suit-over-data-breach.html#tk.rss_all
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