LinkedIn refutes claims that it "hacked" users’ email accounts for marketing purposes

LinkedIn is denying claims that it “hacked” email accounts provided by users during registration, as claimed in a recent class-action suit.

In the complaint filed last Tuesday in a California U.S. District Court, plaintiffs Paul Perkins, Pennie Sempell, Ann Brandwein and Erin Eggers claimed that LinkedIn “hacked” external email addresses it requested in the sign up process to “extract email addresses” of their contacts.