Email snooping victims to sue Yahoo as a single group

Yahoo is bracing itself for a class action lawsuit over allegations that it illegally accessed emails sent to its mail customers from non-Yahoo accounts, after a US judge granted Californian victims the right to sue the company as a group.

The action relates to users who sent or received emails to Yahoo Mail accounts from 2 October 2011, encompassing an estimated 1m members, who attest that Yahoo breached their privacy to collect data in order to bolster its ad revenues.

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