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Details of 700 million LinkedIn Users were hacked and put for online sale. Two months before, LinkedIn suffered a government inquiry after the data of 500 million users were sourced and posted online. Now it’s occurred again. This time as large as 700 million users were affected. RaidForums users have put the data of 700 million people for sale late last week. It was found by the news site PrivacySharks, which communicated LinkedIn after examining a million record examples offered by the seller. So where did this entire data come from? Was it collected during the violation? Did someone find a misconfigured database and retain all 700 million records public for someone who unexpectedly discovered and downloaded the database? LinkedIn circulated an official statement in which it was reported that this data breach is not the corporation’s offense, and an internal study denoted that no private LinkedIn user data was hacked or shared. Data from approximately 500 million LinkedIn users was shared in a similar way in April. LinkedIn claimed that all the data was public and possibly the effect of scouring the data and editing the information from different websites. Regardless of how the data was transferred to the…

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LinkedIn said that the claims of a purported data breach were not accurate, because marketed data was not hacked from LinkedIn by using security flaws, but rather through scraping many Internet sources, as detailed in the firm's April 2021 data scraping update, says Business Today.  LinkedIn stated, "Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale. We want to be clear that this is not a data breach, and no private LinkedIn member data was exposed". "Our initial investigation has found that this data was scraped from LinkedIn and various other websites and includes the same data reported earlier this year in our April 2021 scraping update. Members trust LinkedIn with their data, and any misuse of our members' data, such as scraping, violates LinkedIn's terms of service. When anyone tries to take member data and use it for purposes LinkedIn and our members haven't agreed to, we work to stop them and hold them accountable". More than 700 million LinkedIn users’ records were listed for sale on a hacking forum Recently, a hacker grabbed 700 million records and posted a sample of 1 million data on a well-known hacking forum, demonstrating his…

A sales offer with data from over 700 million – and thus almost all – users of the LinkedIn platform, which has been in a hacker forum since the beginning of last week, is still active. This was shown by a contact by heise Security with the seller “Tom Liner” on Wednesday: For US $ 5,000 as a basis for negotiations, he is still offering information about LinkedIn users, not all of which are publicly available on the user profiles. In an official statement, LinkedIn has denied a leak in the classic sense as well as possible weaknesses in a LinkedIn API. The data was only collected from the public user profiles by so-called “scraping”. All non-publicly viewable data in the offer should therefore come from other sources. Heise Security published a detailed report on the incident yesterday, Tuesday. Among other things, we had a “taste” published by Tom Liner under the microscope with over 400 user data records, which contained, among other things, full names, email and postal addresses, location data, telephone numbers as well as LinkedIn user names and profile URLs as well as information on gender, personal and professional career and other social media accounts of the…

GIF courtesy of The Hustle Focus on Business From The Hustle The tech industry loves throwing around the phrase “Uber for X” as a quick way to explain on-demand startup ideas. Turns out “LinkedIn for X” may have been a better frame. Doximity — a “LinkedIn for doctors” — went public last Thursday… … and in two trading days, the company saw its market value ~2x to ~$10B. Doximity was founded in 2009 The initial team included two tech veterans (Jeff Tangney, Shari Buck) and a doctor (Nate Gross). Doximity set out with the goal of fixing the medical community’s antiquated communication methods. Tangney, who is CEO, tells CNBC that 80% of communication is done via snail mail and fax. The solution: build a medical social network In the decade since launch, Doximity has 1.8m medical professionals in the US (including 80%+ of physicians) on its platform. While building out the user base, the startup also created a secure way for doctors to share information with patients and other doctors. Like LinkedIn, Doximity has a 2-pronged revenue approach: Ads: Drugmakers market treatments to very niche audiences, while health systems “promote content” to doctors. Recruiting: Hospitals and health facilities use it to fill open roles. Doximity’s sales…

LinkedIn denies reports of 'fresh' breach, says 'leaked information from April is scraped data' &nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspThinkstock Key Highlights Reports said personal information of 92% LinkedIn users was put up for sale on Dark Web by hackers Reports claim hackers exposed personal information of 1 million users as sample data for potential buyers on Dark Web RestorePrivacy first reported the latest leak which was confirmed by 9to5Google Professional networking website LinkedIn denied reports of data breach stating that data put for sale online recently was “scraped” from LinkedIn and other various websites as reported earlier in its ‘April 2021 scraping update’. “Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale. We want to be clear that this is not a data breach and no private LinkedIn member data was exposed,” said the California, US-based tech company. “Our initial investigation has found that this data was scraped from LinkedIn and other various websites and includes the same data reported earlier this year in our April 2021 scraping update. Members trust LinkedIn with their data, and any misuse of our members’ data, such as scraping, violates LinkedIn terms of service. When anyone tries to…

Founder of RevenueZen: Alex Boyd Alex Boyd In an age where all B2B marketing is digital yet very little of it actually works, it’s tough to know whose advice you can trust. Perhaps the first clue is when they acknowledge, up front, just how ineffective most marketing really is. Alex Boyd, founder and CEO of RevenueZen, isn’t shy about sharing what most B2B marketers get wrong about SEO and LinkedIn. But he’s hesitant to give advice without first understanding the context and nuance of a particular situation, which is usually a sign someone has earned their chops. I recently caught up with Boyd to hear his thoughts on SEO strategy, demand gen philosophy, LinkedIn spam, and why, at the end of the day, a simple phone call can go a long way. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Kevin Kruse: What have you seen change or shift in marketing and demand generation in the last several years? Alex Boyd: Anything “mass” has decreased in effectiveness as well as anything easy to measure with a low barrier to entry. Those types of activities have less value because everyone presses the buttons that are easy to press, like…

Monday, June 28, 2021, 5:49 PM MDT CALGARY, AB, June 28, 2021 /CNW/ - Alvopetro Energy Ltd. (TSXV: ALV) (OTCQX: ALVOF) announces that the Board of Directors, in consultation with management, have approved a grant of 500,000 deferred share units ("DSUs") under the Company's Incentive Share Plan to the non-executive directors of the Board.  The DSUs were granted in appreciation of the contribution efforts of each director to the Company's achievements and in recognition of the fact that in prior years, the annual cash compensation to each director was well below compensation paid by peer companies.  The DSUs were granted on June 28, 2021, will vest on June 28, 2024, and expire on June 28, 2026.  Following the grant of DSUs there are now 1,400,000 outstanding incentives granted under the Company's Incentive Share Plan and a total of 6,327,250 stock options outstanding under the Company's Stock Option Plan, representing an aggregate 7.7% of the shares outstanding. Social Media Follow Alvopetro on our social media channels at the following links:Twitter - https://twitter.com/AlvopetroEnergy Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alvopetro/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/alvopetro-energy-ltd Alvopetro Energy Ltd.'s vision is to become a leading independent upstream and midstream operator in Brazil. Our strategy is to unlock the on-shore natural gas potential in the…

With the ongoing vaccine roll-out gradually leading to new signs of hope for a return to normal life, many businesses are now preparing for the next stage, and a ramp-up in activity as new opportunities arise.  In alignment with this, LinkedIn has published a new 'Return to Growth' digital magazine, which provides a range of insights, tips and interviews with experts to help inspire brands in revising and improving their post-COVID-19 strategies. As explained by LinkedIn:  "Ready for Business 2021 explores everything that’s involved in using digital marketing to drive growth and get your strategy moving. There’s detailed insight on identifying your highest-value audiences and engaging them when they’re at their most receptive. We dig deep into the growing importance of trust and thought leadership content in a post-pandemic world, highlight the changing nature of B2B buyer journeys, and share stories and strategies for how your marketing can inspire, entertain – and engage the ready for business mindset at scale." The 50-page magazine, which you can download here, includes a range of helpful articles and notes, including the results of a new LinkedIn user study, which sought to discover more about why people use the platform. There are also case studies…

MailGuard has intercepted phishing emails designed to harvest personal details from LinkedIn members. Fraudulent emails claiming to be from LinkedIn, have been detected by cybersecurity company, MailGuard, and are likely for malicious intent, such as committing identity theft. The email poses as an auto-generated notification informing recipients of a new message from another LinkedIn member. The body of the email is designed to be very similar to a legitimate alert from LinkedIn and contains multiple branding elements belonging to the social media company, including its logo, along with various support links in a footer. The email includes a View Message button. The email originates from a compromised email account belonging to a public university based overseas. Unsuspecting recipients who click the View Message link are sent to a login page asking for their LinkedIn account credentials. The page is designed to look like a legitimate LinkedIn login page, but is actually a phishing page hosted on a SaaS website development platform. If users sign in to the false LinkedIn page, the attacker harvests their credentials for later use, and users are redirected back to the login page. “Although we are stopping this email scam from reaching Australian businesses, we encourage all…