Facebook wants suit tossed

Facebook Inc says a suit over a data breach that affected almost 30 million users should be tossed because the lawyers who filed it have provided no evidence that anyone was injured by the attack.

The suit was filed last year on behalf of 18 Facebook users seeking to represent a class of 29 million.

But 16 of the users dropped out of the case; one was dismissed by the judge; and the last remaining plaintiff had been unable to back up his claim that he was hit by phishing attacks after the breach, said Facebook in a filing in federal court, here, on Thursday.

A federal judge had issued a strongly worded ruling in June rejecting Facebook’s request to dismiss the case.

The world’s largest social network portrayed itself as the victim of a sophisticated cyber-attack and argued that it wasn’t liable for thieves gaining access to user names and contact information.