LinkedIn Responds to Reports of Data Breach Affecting 700 Million of Its Users
Article By Entrepreneur Staff Recently, several media reported on the data breach of more than 700 million users of the professional social network, LinkedIn, which is equivalent to just over 90 percent of people who use the platform. However, the social network explained through a statement that it is not a data breach, at least not “private data.” “Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been made available for sale. We want to make it clear that this is not a data breach and that no private data of LinkedIn members was exposed.” Although in the same message, the platform explains that its researchers discovered that the data, which is for sale in a hacker forum, was extracted from LinkedIn and other websites “and includes the same data reported in April 2021.” To know more: Now it was LinkedIn’s turn: hackers sell data of 500 million users in a …
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