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The same threat actor has leaked larger amounts of data from LinkedIn dated 2023. They claim this new data contains 35M lines and is 12 GB uncompressed.
Troy Hunt, the Have I Been Pwned person, has a very informative analysis of the breach that was not a breach, turns out nothing actually "leaked" from Linkedin, it's a mix of scrapped and generated stuff
Yeah but that doesn't get the clicks!!!!11one!
Well, fuck. This was the ONE social media site that I put my data on, and that was out of necessity (job hunting). I know it's not the same, but this sort of feels like the Equifax breach.
If it's any consolation, LinkedIn is notoriously terrible at this, so your data was probably out there as early as 2016 and almost certainly after 2021, when they managed to get hit with similar breaches twice in the same year.
I stopped using LinkedIn several years ago when it was turning into some hideous social media thing rather than just a place to keep an updated cv. I took a look at it six or so months ago and Jesus Christ, what the fuck happened?
It appears to now just be filled with people desperately trying to convince other people that they're an expert when in reality they're just talking to themselves and no one's really listening.
It's so stupid, but definitely can be helpful professionally to maintain a profile there. Depends on your experience and what field you're in, of course, but recruiters seem to use it a fair amount.
Definitely don't use it for the garbage social media aspect (it's like everyone is submitting pieces to Chicken Soup for the Soul??) However, I've been convinced of its utility after getting a new job through a recruiter there without even looking. The process was sooo easy compared to applying for jobs the traditional way. Icing on the cake was that it came with a 50% raise and was for a position I would never have applied for on my own but I love it. Maybe it was lightning in a bottle, but I figure doesn't hurt to keep up a page just in case another good opportunity comes along. If nothing else, the recruiters I hear from give me a sense of how hot the market is and what kind of jobs my profile is pinging me for in case I want to make tweaks.
Its all HR people constantly job hunting by sharing the equivalent of those "hang in there" wall posters from the 90s and adding a paragraph about what it takes to make it in the workforce.
Ill make one of these bullshit posts now.
Suggested:
In school my old teacher Mr. Gerry would perform the elephant toothpaste experiment. This got me thinking. The glass beaker is like the job market and the chemicals mixed together is like your marketable skills that grow to fill the needs of the job market. In my 16 years as a human asset coordinator I've come across many difficulties that required shifts in how I approached the job market. Be like the elephants toothpaste and explode into the market beeeeyaaaaa
It’s not an actual leak. It’s mostly scraped data and fake addresses.
And we share real background information, very specific details. This could lead them to our friends and colleagues!
But I'm not sure it can be called social media, though, but if you are looking for social media platforms that can avoids data leaks, and don't ask for your personal info when register, WireMin and Damus are both good choices.
Speaking of which, we should have a version of LinkedIn that is decentralized!
What private info is on LinkedIn? I thought the whole point was to make your resume public and get found by employers.
Yeah it's the only public social media I have with any personal information. If it leaks I'm fine with that because I use VPN and even have my email alias on there.
LinkedIn sells the info themselves, they don't let the general public easily scrape/access it
Can someone check if my password is there? It's 'dupa.7'. Thanks.
dupa.7
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords confirms that is has been hacked 11 times.
Ok, changed to 'dupa.8'. Thanks.
Or the most secure one: hunter2
What's that? All I see is *******
I see Lemmy has implemented Reddit's security settings. Impressive.
~~Reddit~~
IRC ftfy
s e c u r i t y
I'm excited for my class action award of $3
Figures. The only way to get someone interested in my linked in account is for them to steal the data.
Let me know if you see anything you like. I didn't put it on there but I'm also proficient in bocce ball
The jokes on LinkedIn. T-Mobile already has my social security number, birth date, and other important information on the dark web, thanks to their security breach.
Don't forget Equifax, assuming you are in the USA
Strangely enough, that data doesn't seem to have surfaced anywhere. There's a decent chance it was stolen by a nation-state actor using it for espionage.
Slightly refreshing from them selling your email to spammers as soon as you signed up.
Again and again and again and again. I get more spam on my linkedin email address than I do on any other.
I have a set it up so that any email sent to unknown users on my domain gets redirected to email. If you send an email to bad_address@example.com and my real email is uranibaba@example.com, I will still receive the email.
Now this is great because I will just use name_of_service@example.com and still get the email. If the email is leaked, I will know where it came from.
Owning your own domain is great that way. Even makes the little bit I pay to ProtonMail well worth it. There are a few addresses I have dedicated, like my aws@example.com, me@, and my-name@, but the rest just go to a catch all. It's fantastic.
I ended up just disabling the alias I use to receive emails from LinkedIn. Since I noticed I just kept deleting those emails without ever reading them, I figured I'd just opt to not receive any emails. :D
According to Troy Hunt this alleged leak is mostly from older leaks and fake data:
"this data is a combination of information sourced from public LinkedIn profiles, fabricated emails address and in part (anecdotally based on simply eyeballing the data this is a small part), the other sources in the column headings above. But the people are real, the companies are real, the domains are real and in many cases, the email addresses themselves are real"
Source: https://www.troyhunt.com/hackers-scrapers-fakers-whats-really-inside-the-latest-linkedin-dataset/
That would explain the targeted scams I've been subjected to which seem to have been coming from old colleagues
Now I know why I'm getting scam mails on the email address that I never use online and scam phonecalls on the phone number I never use online, except for LinkedIn.
Was surprised at first, then I went to go log in to change my password.
And then it said I was emailed a 2FA code... the code was part of the email header.
Now I'm completely unsurprised this happened.
I'm not sure what you're implying here regarding headers? Email is insecure regardless; even when using SMTP with TLS, it's not like the headers are exposed whereas the body would be encrypted or something.
the code was part of the
... part of the Subject header in the encrypted body of the message, you mean? What a nothing-burger.
encrypted body of the message
Encrypted what? LinkedIn lets you add a key/cert to send you encrypted emails?
Gadammit, my linkedin uses my clean email account. Linkedin security, do better!
So glad that I did NOT simply close my account there, but instead I changed every single piece of personal data to some meaningless xyz123 before I finally closed it.
That's why today I got an email from a headhunter that used Data from my LinkedIn profile. Fuck this.
no because they probably paid a couple of hundred bucks to email you from one of the many data banks that source their information from LinkedIn.
Doesn’t sound like anything that hasn’t already been leaked elsewhere, boring 🥱
Not to mention its on my resume so its pretty available.
