A few months ago, some social networks were victims of successive attacks that violated the security and privacy of users. At that time, LinkedIn was one of the victims, and now it seems that history is repeating itself. A powerful attack broke in and exposed data from 700 million social network accounts.
Given that LinkedIn has about 750 million users, this attack could have affected more than 90% of users.
The experts of RestorePrivacy, a security company that focuses on restoring online privacy, said the attacks behind the LinkedIn attack may have disclosed users' personal information, violating their privacy.
Among them, they refer to data such as location, salaries, telephone numbers and other sensitive information. Apparently, hackers will have published a sample of one million records.
So far, in 2021, we've already seen two separate incidents where bad actors exploited the professional platform to collect large amounts of user data.
RestorePrivacy experts said.
What hackers can do with the data later is anyone's guess. However, the online security company highlighted identity theft and phishing attacks, stressing that the “implications of this are far-reaching”.
In turn, the last 9To5Mac report revealed that information regarding addresses, occupations, e-mail addresses, full names, telephone numbers, and more may have been disclosed. However, according to RestorePrivacy, the hackers did not publish the injured users' passwords.
LinkedIn users aren't the only ones harmed
Despite the protection we can (try) to guarantee, the Internet is not a 100% secure space. In fact, there are several hackers who develop malware and other malicious files in order to attack the many victims.
Remember, for example, the scheme Crackonosh, which, after being installed by gamers, runs a cryptographic coin mining program without the computer owner noticing.
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