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LinkedIn denies harvesting user email accounts without permission

2013-09-23 15:51:24| InfoWorld: Top News

LinkedIn denied over the weekend charges that the company breaks into the email accounts of its members without permission to harvest contacts' addresses. A class action complaint by four users has charged the professional networking site with hacking into their external email accounts and downloading addresses of their contacts for monetary gain by repeatedly promoting its services to these contacts.

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