LinkedIn sued for $5 million in class action suit

LinkedIn recently suffered a security breach, wherein the usernames and passwords of account holders were compromised. Now, a woman named Katie Szpyrka from Illinois in the United States is organizing a class action lawsuit against the professional network, saying that the security breach was a violation of its own terms and conditions. According to ZDNet, Szpyrka has been a member of LinkedIn, since 2010 and claims that LinkedIn, "failed to properly safeguard its users’ digitally stored personally identifiable information including email addresses, passwords, and login credentials.” She filed the suit in a United States District Court in a district in Northern California. She wants a trial in front of jury on the grounds of breach of contract and negligence. She says that members of the class action suit should include individuals and entities in the United States who have had a LinkedIn account on or before the 6th of June, 2012. The group should include individuals and entities that have signed up for premium accounts.