United States.- Data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been extracted and is for sale online, according to a Cyber News report. A LinkedIn spokesperson confirmed to Insider that there is a set of public information data that was extracted from the platform.
While we are still investigating this issue, the published dataset appears to include publicly visible information that was extracted from LinkedIn combined with aggregated data from other websites or companies, a LinkedIn spokesperson told Insider in a statement.
“Taking data from our LinkedIn members violates our terms of service and we constantly work to protect our members and their data.”
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LinkedIn has 740 million users, according to its website, so the reported data scraping of 500 million users means that about two-thirds of the platform’s user base could be affected. Read more: The last wish Prince Philip asked for before he died at homeThe data includes account IDs, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information, genres and links to other social media accounts.
Millions of accounts would have been compromised in security because of this attack. afp
It has been put up for sale on a hacker forum, and the author of the publication also leaked a sample of 2 million records as proof of concept, according to CyberNews.The hacker is trying to sell the data treasure for a sum of 4 digits, according to the medium, and potentially in the form of bitcoin. Read more: Is it safe? Pfizer asks FDA to emergency approve its COVID vaccine for children CyberNews researchers confirmed that the data was extracted from LinkedIn users, but noted that the information could have been taken from profiles at an earlier date and not recently.
Facebook also had a similar security issue days ago. afp
Paul Prudhomme, an analyst at security intelligence company IntSights, told Insider that the data exposed is important because bad actors could use it to attack companies through their employee information.” Such attacks are more likely to succeed due to increased remote work and increased use of home or personal devices for work due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Prudhomme said.
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“Attacking businesses through their employees’ personal accounts and devices is a way for attackers to avoid enterprise network security defenses.”
