A federal judge gave the green light for plaintiffs in Yahoo’s massive data breach case to move forward with their class action lawsuit. The data breaches at Yahoo between 2013 and 2016 affected more than 1 billion users. Yahoo claimed the plaintiffs had no right to sue, given they allegedly did not suffer an actual injury. In her ruling, Judge Lucy Koh stated that the plaintiffs have adequately alleged these three points in their lawsuit. In addressing the first issue, Koh contended that previous court cases have accepted the risk of future identity theft, as well as the loss in value of personal identification information, as sufficient.”]
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