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New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed

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Re: New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed

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Post by ta988 »

AzzieElbab wrote: post #14
emodendroket wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like just the phone number and email.

Yeah missed that. My LinkedIn api experience is dated, are those visible via api?

The Linkedin API is dated. So you are probably up to date ;)

Re: New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed

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Post by tjpnz »

unishark wrote: post #23
dnate wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like the lines between a data leak and large scale scraping are getting blurred. At least in their impact for the user. Which is a bad thing as it will support the "so what" attitude that many people have toward their data. It is a fact that all this data is already being crawled by bot nets. If all data is leaked at once, this is similar to a large scale successful crawling of the site. At least from a user p…

Are these details publicly-available for the scraping though? I'd be suspicious it was an employee with internal access to the data or someone who had hacked such an employee's computer. Of course they wouldn't admit such criminal act and risk getting caught, they'd claim a route anyone could use.

If the geolocation data is fine grained I would hope not.

Re: New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed

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Post by nomdep »

_uxgb wrote: post #28

LinkedIn became crap a long time ago. Let's make https://www.polywork.com the default way to share your achievements.

Sorry, but looks like vaporware, and the company (Kalo) seems scammy: broken website, no activity for years even when they claim to have raised millions, etc.

Re: New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed

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Post by qku »

_uxgb wrote: post #28

LinkedIn became crap a long time ago. Let's make https://www.polywork.com the default way to share your achievements.

Can't tell what it does from the website.

It scrolljacks you from the beginning and shows a lot of cartoon characters and trite phrases.

It doesn't even do anything yet but ask me to join a waitlist. This is supposed to replace a social network with 700 million users?! It looks horrible.

Re: New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed

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Post by whoomp12342 »

stuff4ben wrote: post #9

But is this really a problem? LinkedIn is "advertising for yourself", presumably to get a job. With the exception of my phone number, I'm ok with the world knowing this information about me. It's the equivalent of a phone book and I'm putting myself out there and advertising myself in the hopes of getting a job.

My understanding is that it was "advertise yourself within your network". I dont want my name and face on a billboard for just anyone....

Also, keep in mind that LI has contact information and passwords people might re-use

Re: New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed

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Post by whoomp12342 »

AzzieElbab wrote: post #11

The article does not explain what info beyond public profiles had been stolen. You can already google search LinkedIn making this data leak very low impact

it bypasses privacy settings users may have set up. e.g. not everyone can see my contact info

Re: New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed

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Post by xpe »

kleinsch wrote: post #8

Where are all the folks who were complaining about the LinkedIn anti-scraping court case destroying the open web? This is what LinkedIn is fighting against.

It is easy for hacker(s) to claim they got this data from scraping. From the article, we can't be confident that this is true (completely or in part).
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