500 Million Linkedin Users' Data Stolen
While the data stolen from Facebook has not been off the agenda yet, this time another cyber piracy news came from Linkedin. The data of 500 million users was stolen from Linkedin, the world's largest social business network and sharing platform.
Cyber security news site Cybernews reported that the personal information of half a billion Linkedin users was stolen by cyber hackers. The stolen information includes Linkedin IDs, full names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, gender information, links, other social media links, job titles and other job related information. According to the allegations, there is no password, bank or credit card information among the stolen information.
In a statement made by a news site, it was stated that the stolen information was sold for money. The news site stated that it received a four-digit and dollar-denominated payment request to purchase personal information. The news site, which pays for the accuracy of the information and receives user information, said that the purchased data matches the actual data.
On the other hand, there is no official statement from Linkedin, which has a total of 750 million users.
What you need to do to protect your information is;
- Log in to your Linkedin account and change the passwords of your accounts, including email.
- Pay attention to messages and connection requests from other users.
- Enable the two-factor authentication (2FA) feature on your accounts.
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