Second colossal LinkedIn “breach” in 3 months, almost all users affected

Second colossal LinkedIn “breach” in 3 months, almost all users affected
Posted: June 30, 2021

LinkedIn has reportedly been breached—again—following reports of a massive sale of information scraped from 500M LinkedIn user profiles in the underground in May. According to Privacy Shark, the VPN company who first reported on this incident, a seller called TomLiner showed them he was in possession of 700 million Linkedin user records. That means almost all (92 percent) of LinkedIn’s users are affected by this.


The underground seller known as TomLiner is in possession of the 700M LinkedIn records on sale. They’re also classed as a “GOD User”, which could suggest that their name has weigh in the underground market. (Source: Privacy Shark)

RestorePrivacy, an information site about privacy, examined the proof the seller put out and found the following information, scraped from LinkedIn user profiles:

• Email addresses
• Full names
• Phone numbers
• Physical addresses
• Geolocation records
• LinkedIn username and profile URL
• Personal and professional experience/background
• Genders
• Other social media account usernames

 

Yikes!

 

https://www.privacysharks.com/linkedin-saga-continues-hacker-now-selling-1b-linkedin-records-including-passwords/

 

That's why I got the heck out of there 4 years ago. Someone on my list got hacked, and then others started to pop up. Then strange glitches here and there were appearing, and I knew it was only a matter of time until I got hacked, too. I said Adios.

Looks like I made the right choice.