U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila has given LinkedIn’s proposed $1.25 million settlement of a 2012 class-action suit final approval, Media Post reports. The “plaintiffs' claim does not assert that class members were necessarily harmed by the data breach, but that they overpaid for their premium LinkedIn subscription because they did not receive promised data security," Davila noted in his opinion. “The deal requires LinkedIn to pay approximately $15 each to almost 50,000 users who purchased premium memberships to the service,” the report states, adding the company “must use security techniques including ‘salting’ and ‘hashing’ for at least five years.”
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