AKURAT.CO, Microsoft’s job search platform, LinkedIn, acknowledged that the profile data of more than 500 million users had been removed from the platform.
This violation was first exposed by the publication of the technology news and international research website CyberNews. They claim in their reports that information such as LinkedIn ID, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, gender and links to other social networks belonging to more than 500 million LinkedIn users have been compromised and sold on dark web.
Reporting from sputniknews.com, until now the details of the person or organization responsible for exposing user data on the dark web are not yet known.
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“Members trust LinkedIn with their data, and we are taking action to protect that trust. We have investigated the alleged dataset that LinkedIn has posted for sale and have determined that it is actually a collection of data from a number of websites and companies. That includes publicly visible member profile data that appears to have been taken from LinkedIn, “LinkedIn wrote in a statement.
Launched in 2002, LinkedIn has attracted approximately 740 million members with more than 55 million companies registered internationally.
Netizens from all over the world using the platform have expressed concern over this massive data leak and tweeted about wanting to remove all of these apps.
The Italian privacy watchdog has reportedly started investigating the LinkedIn data breach. Until now, the details of legal action or investigations for breaches of LinkedIn data from other countries are still unknown.
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