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 data breach: Data of 700 million users put for online sale
