Initially thought to have only affected 6.5 million users, in 2016, new information came to light revealing that virtually all 170 million LinkedIn members’ account logins were stolen. The LinkedIn data breach is a good example. Korelogic ( CrackMeIfYouCan) was the first to report something was going on. Some things come to light only after the passage of time.
I actually thought that was sort of left to the history books now, with no additional news or stories to tell. RestorePrivacy says that the data has already been put up for sale online. Motherboard says it looked at a sample of more than one million stolen credentials provided by LeakSource. 4:14 pm, Well, look what suddenly reappeared. Data breaches: Depending on how you fill out your profile, LinkedIn contains a lot of information about you. A LinkedIn breach could have unveiled the personal data of 93 of its user base, or around 700 million accounts. People may not have taken it very seriously back then as it was not spread," an individual associated with LeakedSource reportedly told Motherboard. Wed 14.25 EDT Last modified on Tue 12.25 EST A hacker claiming to have the log in details of millions of LinkedIn users is advertising the data for sale online. The company added that it will invalidate passwords for all accounts that were created prior to the data breach if those passwords have not been updated since the incident.Īccording to sources quoted by Motherboard, the stolen data currently lives in two places: on the illegal marketplace The Real Deal and on the hacked data search engine LeakedSource. LinkedIn has been hit again with a security breach that exposed the data of 700 million users which, if proven true, would mean that 92 of the sites users would have had their data. At the time, it was in the process of being acquired by Verizon and estimated that account. While initial reports said that hackers had stolen 6.5 million account credentials, the latest figures. "We are taking immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of the accounts impacted, and we will contact those members to reset their passwords," LinkedIn said in a statement on Wednesday. The company first publicly announced the incident which it said took place in 2013 in December 2016. A LinkedIn data breach that came to light in 2012 is rearing its ugly head once again.
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