• PC World, Monday, September 23, 2013 12:14 PM

LinkedIn has denied accusations that the company breaks into the email accounts of its users to harvest their contacts' addresses. Four users filed a class action suit against the company last week, charging that the social networking site hacked into their external email accounts without permission and then used these addresses to promote the site's services. In a blog post, LinkedIn denied the charges claiming that it does not hack into members' accounts and claims that any access it uses is with user permission.

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