Data of 700 million users of LinkedIn being sold on dark web, company denies data leak
There is news of a big data leak in the social networking platform LinkedIn. According to the report, the data of 756 million users of LinkedIn has been leaked, which is being said that this leak includes the data of about 92 percent of the users of LinkedIn, although no information has been revealed about the hackers who leaked the data. This data leak of LinkedIn includes personal information such as phone numbers, addresses, locations and salaries of users.
Earlier in April this year, LinkedIn itself had confirmed about the data leak of 500 million users. In that leak too, from e-mail address to mobile number, full name, account ID, social media account information and office information was leaked. This data leak was also listed on the online hackers forum.
On this data leak, LinkedIn says that no data has been leaked. This data has been extracted by scraping the network, although LinkedIn has definitely said that it is investigating the matter. After the preliminary investigation, LinkedIn has said that the personal data of any LinkedIn member has not been leaked. The company says that scraping data is a violation of LinkedIn’s privacy policy.
Information of 700 million users involved in the new data leak is being sold on the dark web. Hackers have posted data of one million users in the public domain of the dark web.
At the same time, a tech website has also contacted hackers regarding this data leak. Hackers have told that they have extracted this data through the LinkedIn API. Users’ passwords are not included in the leaked data sheet. Now it is necessary for all users to check the security of their accounts. Apart from this, users should also reset their passwords. If Two Factor Authentication is not on then it should be enabled.
