Can I Really Trust LinkedIn With My Data?

Friends carrying large block getty According to Insider Intelligence’s 2020 Digital Trust Study, LinkedIn ranked number one in ‘Security,’ ‘Legitimacy,’ and ‘Community.’ This has been called into question recently with the recent report of scraped data being pulled from LinkedIn. The big question, should you be concerned? The short answer is no. LinkedIn has come out and said, “This was not a LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included in what we’ve been able to review.” What this means is the ‘hacker’ (and I’m being generous with that term) brute-force collected data from the public side of LinkedIn, not releasing any private data. This action, while not illegal, is grossly immoral, but should not impact you in any way. LinkedIn’s response to this breach was a lot more transparent than many other organizations. In 2019, Facebook faced a massive data leak that saw 533 million user’s private data go online, including emails, phone numbers, and other contact information; this breach was quickly swept under the rug and wasn’t revealed to the public until two weeks ago when the information on those 533 million users appeared on a public database. The worst part? Facebook decided…
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