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LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info.
(lemmy.world)
The same threat actor has leaked larger amounts of data from LinkedIn dated 2023. They claim this new data contains 35M lines and is 12 GB uncompressed.
This there is the MO I was talking about.
I can't conclusively say whether or not LinkedIn intentionally sold my email, or whether they were just infected at the time. However, I feel like the former is at least as feasible, and even if it was the latter it's still reprehensible of them to be so lax in their security. Like I say, I've only experienced 2 websites that did that, and I've made up countless emails going on for years before then.
They don't have lax security. They use industry standard measures, including encryption in transit and at rest, salted passwords (they were caught without salt over a decade ago and fixed it), internal training on security, phishing simulations, the works. Your data is their business, they don't want to lose it.