Customers affected by the eBay breach are seeking legal advice.
According to ITnews, eBay is facing a class action lawsuit after US citizen Collin Green filed a consumer privacy class action suit in US District Court, accusing the e-commerce company of failing to secure private information.
The suit noted that eBay “holds personal information of more than 120 million active customers in electronic files,” and because the company didn’t protect the data properly it “has caused, and is continuing to cause, damage to its customers.” The claim also provided a litany of information that eBay collects and stores — from credit card, shipping and location data to statistics on page views, mobile phone numbers and community discussions — that could be used for identity theft.
