Just one day after Yahoo announced a massive 2014 hacking, a New York man has filed a class action lawsuit.

Ronald Schwartz is seeking class action status in his lawsuit filed in the federal court in San Jose, California. Schwartz says he is suing on behalf of the roughly 500 million Yahoo users whose accounts were believed to have been hacked by a "state-sponsored actor." Schwartz suggested in the lawsuit that the breach might have been thwarted if Yahoo had lived up to its promise of taking user privacy "seriously" and bulked up its security measures.

Yahoo demonstrated "reckless disregard for the security of its users' personal information that it promised to protect," according to the complaint.

A Yahoo spokeswoman told news organizations the Sunnyvale, California-based company does not discuss pending litigation.

—Source:  businessinsider.com