According to Cyber News, LinkedIn information was leaked on a large scale, affecting 500 million users. At present, the information has been sold online by attackers. A LinkedIn press spokesperson confirmed that the information sold was indeed from LinkedIn.
A LinkedIn press spokesperson said in a statement: “We are investigating that the data sets published online appear to contain LinkedIn publicly viewable information, as well as aggregated information from other websites or companies. Collecting member data from LinkedIn violates our terms of service. We have been working hard and hope to protect members and member data.”
At present, LinkedIn has about 740 million users, which means that the affected users account for about two-thirds of the total number of users. The leaked information includes user ID, name, email address, mobile phone number, work information, gender, and other social media accounts.
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The attacker sold data on hacker forums, and he provided 2 million records as samples. Cyber News researchers confirmed that the data did come from LinkedIn users, but they cautioned that the information may come from old files, not recent information.
Security intelligence company IntSights analyst Paul Prudhomme (Paul Prudhomme) pointed out that the impact of leaked data is huge because perpetrators can use employee information to attack companies. Prudholm said: “During the pandemic, more and more employees work remotely, and the frequency of use of home and personal devices has increased, and the possibility of similar attacks has increased. Attacking companies through employee personal accounts and devices is a bypassing A way to open corporate network security defense barriers.”
Just a few days ago, Facebook just confirmed that a large amount of data was leaked, affecting 530 million users.
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