LinkedIn website denies data breaching exposing 700 million users' profiles😱😱😱
Horrible Data Breach on LinkedIn. Where 500 million users had their data hacked earlier this year, the new LinkedIn Data Breach has lost about 700 million or 700 million user data. Find out the answers to all these questions - how did this happen, on behalf of the company or what is being said, whether your account is secure.
Once again, all the confidential information of LinkedIn customers was stolen. Now the case of this LinkedIn Data Breach is bigger. According to a recent report, the data of about 700 million or 700 million subscribers of LinkedIn has reached the hands of hackers. Statistics show that these 700 million users are actually about 92% of LinkedIn's userbase. To put it bluntly, most of the user information on this Job Searching platform has reached the hackers. However, surprisingly, the hacker himself reported the incident of this LinkedIn Data Breach! The hacker claimed that more important information including users' names, email IDs, phone numbers and addresses had been stolen.
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How did this hacker happen?
According to a report by RestorePrivacy and PrivacyShark, the cybercriminal hacked all the important information of the customers using the API or Application Programming Interface of the LinkedIn website. An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that helps two services communicate with each other. And this is where the hackers do great tricks. Cybercriminals can misappropriate the customer information of any public website through data scraping by misusing the API.
Hacker announces sale of customer information -
The hacker, accused in a forum on June 22, announced that the data of 700 million users of LinkedIn was being taken to the cell. Such information has come up in the report. That is,
The cybercriminal throws a kind of threat to the company by stealing the information of LinkedIn users and selling it. The hacker's claim on behalf of Restore Privacy has also been investigated. It is learned that the hacker also hacked the email IDs, full names, phone numbers, addresses, geolocation records, LinkedIn usernames, profile URLs, professional experiences and other social media account usernames of LinkedIn users.
Does the hacker also have the password of the customer's LinkedIn account?
No, the hacker could not steal the password of any LinkedIn customer's account. However, the concern is that while all other information has been snatched from the web, it is not a difficult task for hackers to steal passwords from customers' LinkedIn accounts. The cybercriminals will continue to misuse all the information that has reached the customers so far and try to do great harm to the users. Even hackers can steal customers' identities.
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Find out if your LinkedIn account is secure.
No, there is no way to know if any LinkedIn customer information is protected until this report is published. However, if customers want, they can go to Troy Hunt's website, go to Have I Been Pwned or Firefox Monitor and register with LinkedIn with their email ID to see if their account is secure.
What is being said on behalf of LinkedIn -
LinkedIn but this allegation has completely blown away. The company claims that this is not a data breach and that the personal information of any LinkedIn customer has not been leaked. The company claims, ‘Initially we investigated and found that this data had been scrapped from LinkedIn and several other websites. The same data was found in the April scraping update.
LinkedIn's Tough Action Warning -
Microsoft's LinkedIn is taking tough action against those who try to threaten with such information. On behalf of the company, it is said, 'Members feel safe by sharing their personal information with LinkedIn. And we will be forced to take strict action against those customers who repeatedly try to steal their information without their permission. Earlier this year, hackers hacked the personal information of 500 million LinkedIn users. He was also threatened to be sold by cybercriminals.
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