Jakarta, CNN Indonesia - Hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user data was reported to have leaked in cyberspace. There are 500 million data being auctioned in a hacker forum which contains detailed information from user data.
In an upload compiled by Cybernews, there is information about LinkedIn users which contains information including name, email address, telephone number, workplace information and much more.
In the hacker forum in cyberspace, user data is sold for only US $ 2 or around Rp.29 thousand per data. The seller also auctioned 500 million LinkedIn user data, reaching a fairly large four-digit number, but in the form of bitcoin.
The seller claims the data collected is purely taken from LinkedIn. The Cybernews support team confirmed this by looking at the samples provided on the hacking forum.
However, it is unclear whether the perpetrator broke into the data recently or if it was data collected previously when LinkedIn experienced a data leak.
D quoted The Verge, now that LinkedIn has reported the alleged leakage of user data.
"We have taken allegations that the data set LinkedIn has been posted for sale. We have confirmed that the data is actually a collection of data from a number of sites and companies," a LinkedIn statement said.
Furthermore, he said that no personal LinkedIn account data was included. That means the data that is retrieved is only information on someone's public page.
However, based on a sample of data uploaded in cyberspace, there is some complete information about LinkedIn users that are sold in the forum. That data includes;
- LinkedIn id
- Full name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Gender
- Profile user link
- Other social media links
- Professional title and place of work.
The allegedly leaked data can be used by cybercriminals to carry out various activities. At school to do:
- Phishing attack on 500 million user data
- send spam to email addresses and to phone numbers
- Force a password to enter the user's LinkedIn account and email.
Based on the monitoring, there is no detailed information containing sensitive data such as credit card details, other legal documents that can cause excessive losses.
However, an email address alone is sufficient for cybercriminals to cause real harm.
To anticipate losses that could impact users, it is advisable to change password combinations and enable two-factor authentication on LinkedIn and all social media accounts.
