Earlier today , Facebookannounced to the publicthat a serial publication of vulnerabilities had allowed hackers access to an estimated 50 million drug user profiles . The company now faces its first course of study - action cause over its apparent unfitness to protect this data , likely the first of many such suits to come if the legal fallout after theCambridge Analyticascandal serves as any index .
Carla Echavarrai and Derrick Walker — both average Facebook users by their description in the suit , filed today in California ’s Northern District Court — criminate the social internet of ravish its home plate state ’s unjust competition natural law , neglect , and of concealing its “ grossly unequal ” security measure .
The suit also seek to represent “ all persons who registered for Facebook accounts in the United States and whose PII was access , compromise , or stolen from Facebook in the September 2018 Data Breach . ”
Despite publishing ablog postannouncing the severance and holding two group discussion calls for the imperativeness today , Facebook has n’t leave any item on who might be creditworthy , what data may have been stolen , or what leads the troupe to think the breach was contained to only 50 million accounts .
Read the full suit below :
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