SAN FRANCISCO — A consumer class action filed Tuesday in the Northern District of California accuses LinkedIn Corp. of "hacking into" users' email accounts in order to market the business-oriented social networking site to their contacts with mass-blasted emails.
"This complaint arises from LinkedIn's practice of breaking into its users' third party email accounts, downloading email addresses that appear in the account, and then sending out multiple reminder emails ostensibly on behalf of the user advertising LinkedIn to non-members," plaintiffs attorney Larry Russ of Russ August & Kabat states in Perkins v. LinkedIn, 13-4303.
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