The 22 June LinkedIn hack exposed 700 of its 756 million users – 92%. The Dark Web database is current and available for sale. LinkedIn confirms the breach, but there is more than a bit of confusion over the cause. A sample of one million records for sale shows it contains: Email AddressFull namePhone numberPhysical addressGeolocation recordLinkedIn username and profile URLPersonal and professional experience/backgroundGenderOther social media accounts and usernames It does not appear to have passwords, date-of-birth or financial data. Cybersecurity experts say that it is the perfect base for Identity Theft and highly targeted phishing attacks. This follows the exposure of 500 million of its user’s data in April 2021. A LinkedIn post states, “This is not a data breach, and no private member data was exposed. 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.” In a further update, LinkedIn says the data is authentic. It claims that some came from its servers and combined with other scraped data to complete the data package offered. LinkedIn hack or data scraping – the result is the same Oded…
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LinkedIn hack 700 million users exposed – how to find if you are one!
