Illinois Resident Katie Szpyrka has filed a potentially $5 million class-action lawsuit on behalf of all LinkedIn users for LinkedIn’s recent breach of security. LinkedIn was hacked on June 6 and hackers were able to retrieve an estimated 6.5 million user passwords. The lawsuit is based on the idea that LinkedIn did not use “basic industry standard” security practices and that it’s own security flaws lead to the passwords being stolen. Continue reading here. 

This photo from http://socialtimes.com shows LinkedIn in damage control mode as a Russian hacker stole millions of user passwords on June 6th.