Days after the massive Facebook data leak, LinkedIn also had its security breached. A hacker group claims to have obtained data from 500 million accounts on the platform. The information was put up for sale on the internet and data from more than 2 million users was exposed as a form of “confirmation” by the criminals.

According to the portal cybernews, the information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, user IDs, and data related to the person's work. There is no record that passwords or card numbers were exposed.

The author is selling the sample with 2 million accounts for a symbolic value of US$ 2. The complete package with the data of 500 million users will be auctioned by the criminals.

Uncertainties

It is not possible to know when the breach occurred, even with the data from LinkedIn being revealed now, the leak may have occurred earlier, as was the case with Facebook, where the security breach occurred in 2019. This information is dangerous in the hands of criminals who can carry out an attack by sending spam to gain access to other user data through social engineering attacks or even discover passwords based on trial and error. To give you an idea, a Avast study revealed that 37% of Brazilians use their name or birthday as their password.

There is no way to know if your information is in the leak. LinkedIn, since the data remains confidential, but, just in case, the recommendation is to change the social network passwords and enable two-factor authentication. So far, the social network has not commented on the matter.

Last weekend, a report by Business Insider revealed that data from 533 million Facebook users, including 8 million Brazilians and even Mark Zuckerberg himself, the platform's creator, was leaked on a hacker website. The scam reportedly affected users of the social network in 106 countries, including, in addition to Brazil, the United States (32 million people), the United Kingdom (11 million) and India (6 million).

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