“We take the safety and security of our members’ accounts seriously,” wrote Cory Scott, the company’s chief information security officer. Hackers are selling the stolen LinkedIn database on a black market online called “The Real Deal,” according to tech news site Motherboard.įor its part, LinkedIn offered the same, go-to statement used by every company after a data breach. Information scraped from around 500 million LinkedIn user profiles is part of a database posted for sale on a website popular with hackers, the company confirmed. “If LinkedIn is only now discovering the scale of data that was exfiltrated from their systems, what went wrong with the forensic analysis that should have discovered this?” said Brad Taylor, CEO of cybersecurity firm Proficio. Now, computer security experts are wondering why it took so long for LinkedIn to figure out what happened to their own company computers - or acknowledge it publicly. Moreover, during the same month, a third threat actor took it a step further, when he offered to sell stolen LinkedIn records filtered by.
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This particular hack affects a quarter of the company’s 433 million members. In August 2021, another threat actor leaked millions of records of LinkedIn users, also filtered by country, on a Dark Web forum (the original database was leaked in June 2021). LinkedIn said it’s reaching out to individual members affected by the breach. The company is also invalidating all customer passwords that haven’t been updated since they were stolen. Put on the defensive, LinkedIn is now scrambling to try to stop people from sharing the stolen goods online - often an impractical task. But at the time of the 2012 data breach, LinkedIn hadn’t added a pivotal layer of security that makes the jumbled text harder to decode. This episode drudges up some embarrassing history for LinkedIn.īecause of the company’s old security policy, these passwords are easy for hackers to crack in a matter of days.Ĭompanies typically protect customer passwords by encrypting them. 'Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale. The advice for everyone who uses LinkedIn ( LNKD, Tech30) at this point is: Change your password and add something called two-factor authentication, which requires a text message every time you sign in from a new computer. Bengaluru: Professional networking platform LinkedIn has denied reports of a data breach that allegedly compromised the data of more than 700 million users.
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The data may be eight years old, but with around 360 million accounts, there are sure to be some people still using the same email address and password.The worst part about it is that, because people tend to reuse their passwords, hackers are more likely to gain access to 117 million people’s email and bank accounts. The LinkedIn password dump, which came to light in May, was shortly followed by one three times as big from Myspace. The hackers also claimed to have broken into Zuckerberg’s account on (Facebook-owned) Instagram, but Facebook denies this happened, telling VentureBeat that: “No Facebook systems or accounts were accessed.”Īccording to The Guardian, there could be more hacks like Zuckerberg’s to come.
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It’s alternately possible that LinkedIn’s 2012 password breach is at fault, Engadget reports. It’s not certain that they have his personal email address, but that would make sense if it’s a common thread between the accounts. It was allegedly 167 million accounts and for a mere 5 bitcoins (about US2.2k. The LinkedIn hack of 2012 which we thought had 'only' exposed 6.5M password hashes (not even the associated email addresses so in practice, useless data), was now being sold on the dark web. Hackers appear to have briefly compromised Zuck’s Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter accounts, in some cases defacing them for the sake of bragging rights. Last week there was no escaping news of the latest data breach. OurMine hacking group claimed they got access to Zuckerberg’s Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest by using data from the previous LinkedIn breach, when 167 million hacked accounts had been put up for sale.