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Last week we talked about the massive hack suffered by users of the social network Facebook and how to know if your account was among these millions of hacked users, as well, do not stray too far from this article written by our colleague Toni if you have a LinkedIn account.
And it seems that nearly 500 million user profiles on this page have been exposed and sold to the highest bidder on a website popular with hackers. The data obtained by hackers goes beyond simple users and it also affects several companies.
The information of this massive hack arrived a few days ago on the cybersecurity research and news website cybernews. LinkedIn itself admitted the security flaw and subsequent filtering of the names, email addresses, telephone numbers, professional titles and links to other profiles of some of its users.
It may seem a small number of affected but it is that LinkedIn has more than 675 million members so practically everyone has been affected by this massive hack. Personally, I do not have a LinkedIn account but we understand that the firm would have contacted those affected by the hack, otherwise you can try to detect if you are one of those affected on the web that Facebook users showed.
We understand that it is difficult to manage these hacks and no one is exempt from possible security flaws that are used to obtain sensitive data from millions of users. According to the company itself, data from LinkedIn users includes only information that people publicly listed on their profiles, the professional social networking site said. in a statement last Thursday.
