CNN | 500 million LinkedIn users’ data is for sale on a hacker site
New York (CNN Business)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 Thursday.
The sale of the data was first reported on Tuesday by cybersecurity news and
research site CyberNews, which said
that an archive including user IDs, names, email addresses, phone numbers,
genders, professional titles and links to other social media profiles was being
auctioned off on the forum for a four-figure sum.
According to LinkedIn, the database
for sale “is actually an aggregation of data from a number of websites and
companies.” The data from LinkedIn users includes only information that
people listed publicly in their profiles, the professional social media site,
which is owned by Microsoft (MSFT), said in a Thursday statement. –read
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