LinkedIn Corp. is accused by four of its members of trading personal information of its members without their consent, essentially hacking into their email accounts. In this way, the company obtains all of its members' contacts which it trades. Four LinkedIn users in the US sued the company for the above reason and added that then, when the company has acquired all the contacts, it begins spamming and marketing via email.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday, outlines the steps LinkedIn to hack and otherwise access its users' accounts without their consent.
The plaintiffs demand that the company return any revenues it has earned by using the members' data, according to a statement issued by the court on Tuesday.
The court case can be found under the name Perkins v. LinkedIn Corp., 13-cv-04303, US District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose).
