500 Million LinkedIn Profiles For Sale On The Dark Web

An archive containing data from 500 million LinkedIn profiles, including emails, phone numbers, and professional details. The Privacy Guarantor opens an investigation.

The fuss about the online publication of 533 million Facebook profiles stolen in 2019 is not over yet, and a new case has already broken out. A new database, this time filled with information from 500 million LinkedIn profiles, is for sale on the dark web

Cyber ​​News sounded the alarm. It is unclear whether the cybercriminals stole this information recently or recovered it from a previous breach. What is certain is that this database contains data such as names and surnames, email addresses, telephone numbers, links to profiles of other social networks, and professional details.

LinkedIn is a “professional” social network with over 600 million members worldwide. And the information is retrieved and then put up for sale on the dark web could be exploited to launch phishing attacks or scams. 

Insurance cybercriminals are given to be legitimate: there is an option to download a sample of two million profiles for just $ 2 to be sure. While for those wishing to access the complete database, the cost is around $ 1,800.

The Guarantor for protecting personal data, who gave his advice after the Facebook case, has started an investigation against Linkedin. Also, taking into account that Italy is one of the European countries with the highest number of subscribers, the Authority has adopted a provision with which it warns anyone who has come into possession of personal data deriving from the violation that their possible use conflicts with the legislation on the protection of personal data, as such information is the result of unlawful processing.

As happened with the theft of personal data of Facebook users and LinkedIn, it is the so-called ” scraping, “i.e., an extraction of data from a website through software and therefore not a “data breach,” i.e., a violation of platforms conducted with a cyber-attack. As in the case of Facebook, again, the wisest thing to do is to change the password on LinkedIn and all the accounts associated with the same email used on the social network.

TechSmashers
Tech Smashers is a global platform thatprovides the latest reviews & newsupdates on Technology, Business Ideas, Gadgets, Digital Marketing, Mobiles,Updates On Social Media and manymore up coming Trends.

RECENT POSTS

The 6 Commandments For Successful Data Storytelling

Data Storytelling is the art of telling a story through data. This is the evolution of Data Visualization, the last step of that long...

Robotics: The Future Of Mechanical Engineering

Did you know that robotics will make more than half of all jobs redundant in the medium and long term due to increasing technological...

How To Open Sites That Are Blocked Or Prevent The Use Of Tor

How to access blocked websites: the best solutions to proceed. It can often happen that you cannot access some websites: the connection simply times...

An Honest Guide To Getting Into Electronics Design

Are you interested in getting involved in electronic design? It’s no secret that the world of creating and innovating with electronics can seem intimidating,...

How To Activate The eSIM On An Android Smartphone

On this page, let's see how to activate the eSIM on an Android smartphone. There are many brands, so we have divided the guide...

What Is Social Proof, And How To Conquer It On Social Networks?

Take your opinion and put it here in my comments, please! What? Could we point you elsewhere for such excellent social proof as customer...

Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra: No Other Android Likes It! The Review

Like every year in February, Samsung renews the Galaxy S series and punctually also in this 2023 presents the new smartphones. The top of...

Run A VMware Windows 7 Virtual Machine With Oracle VirtualBox

"Changing over" a virtual machine starting with one organization and then onto the next isn't direct 100% of the time. Our past article (see...