A new data leak has appeared in an underground forum. Contains data from 500 million LinkedIn users and is for sale.
The hacker who managed to extract them from the Microsoft-owned social network has already posted two million archives users as proof that the data is real.
Ένα αρχείο κλεμμένων δεδομένων που φέρεται να περιέχει 500 εκατομμύρια προφίλ του LinkedIn έχει τεθεί προς πώληση σε ένα δημοφιλές hacking forum. Τα 2 εκατομμύρια αρχεία χρηστών που έχουν δημοσιευτεί σαν απόδειξη ότι πρόκειται για πραγματικά δεδομένα, μπορούν να προβληθούν στο forum για 2$. Οι 500 εκατομμύρια λογαριασμοί προσφέρονται για ένα τετραψήφιο ελάχιστο ποσό (πληρωτέο σε Bitcoins).
Based on the samples that security researchers were able to see in the released files, the files appear to contain many professional information mainly from LinkedIn profiles.
This information, although mostly visible in profile, is of great interest to cybercriminals.
Registrations have the following fields:
LinkedIn IDs
Full names
Email addresses
Telephone numbers
Sex
Links with LinkedIn profiles
Links to other social media profiles
In addition, there are job titles and other job-related data.
In fact, people on LinkeIn post their data on their profiles so that others can find it. But the whole issue has its drawbacks, because the data from the leaked files can be used against LinkedIn users by malicious users in various ways:
Admintreatment targeted phishing attacks
Spamming 500 million emails and phone numbers
Code breaking accessLinkedIn profiles and email addresses.
