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LinkedIn to pay 800,000 premium users $1 each to settle class-action lawsuit

Posted on June 19, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Alejandro Alba reports:

LinkedIn might owe you a dollar.

The professional social network will pay approximately 800,000 of its users $1.25 million-or $1 each-to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed LinkedIn failed to protect the passwords and information of its premium subscribers between March 2006 and June 2012.

Read more on NY Daily News.

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