Would you like 500 million correos electrónicos to come from LinkedIn?
After the Fb data leak last weekend, the warnings started again with one new data theft case Scratchthis time i LinkedInone of the leading platforms and applications for job search.
Nearly 800,000 correos electrónicos The accounts of the popular network are for sale in an Internet forum, where there are various profile data up to 2 million users. What to Expect How could “piratas informáticos” get this information?
Stealing personal information on LinkedIn through data scraping
Like you said in cyber newsthe usuario who has published such an offer in the forum assures that he is the owner of the data up to two million LinkedIn profilesobtained with the technique of Scratch or data scrapingyes it is not clear where the source of the leak would be.
In any case and how it is possible to checkThe details involve compromises full names, phone numbers, correo electrónico addresses and other information associated with a LinkedIn professional profile. Own whistleblower in the forum it says that it sells the complete data from up to 500 million profiles for at least four-digit amounts. In the same way, he adds examples of his “work” to the data of two dollars.
Although LinkedIn has not yet decided on the matter and has not been found sensitive information among the leaked datanecessary to warn that if the content of this leak falls into the wrong hands, the dirección de correo electrónico addresses and phone numbers could be used the start of a massive contenido publicitario campaign either Launch phishing attacks.
For this reason, if you suspect that this leak may be affecting your LinkedIn account, we recommend you do so Change the password and correo electrónico account associated with your profileas well as you enable two-aspecto authentication in the popular network.