Facebook fought back in the Sept 26 filing, urging the judge not to grant the case class-action status and to dismiss it entirely for lack of evidence that anyone was harmed by the data breach. — AFP
Facebook Inc says a lawsuit over a data breach that affected almost 30 million users should be tossed because the lawyers who filed it have provided no evidence that anyone was injured by the attack.
The suit was filed last year on behalf of 18 Facebook users seeking to represent a class of 29 million. But 16 of the users dropped out of the case; one was dismissed by the judge; and the last remaining plaintiff has been unable to back up his claim that he was hit by phishing attacks after the breach, Facebook said in a filing Sept 26 in San Francisco federal court.
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