Technical / Email number of 500 million users of LinkedIn leaked email-ID

New Delhi. The data leakage incident of Facebook users (Facebook users) had not taken place even a week and now there was a data leak of Microsoft authorized professional networking platform LinkedIn. There are also 500 million users' data, including the user's phone number, email address, workplace information, and other information. This has been disclosed by CyberNews. It has been reported in the report that the data draw of the users is present on the web and the hackers are selling the group at a high price of million.

LinkedIn claims to have only publicly viewable data

Following the data leak case, LinkedIn said in its statement that it investigated it where it found that the data it had made available for sale was taken from websites and companies and that its platform had no link to it. The company further said that, in the review that we have done, it is found that, it definitely contains the profile data of publicly viewable members which is taken from LinkedIn but it is not a data breech. The company said that private member account data has not been taken from our platform. The company further said that, whenever a member tries to get the data, we do not give permission to it and immediately stop it. But the report clearly states that the data of the users has been taken from LinkedIn itself.

It is known that a few days ago, the data of 53.3 crore users of Facebook was leaked out of which 61 lakh data was also from Indian users. This leaked data also included every information of the users. In this case, Facebook had said in its clarification that this happened in the year 2019, which was fixed by the company in the same year.

LinkedIn has begun to invest in data breach. Bloomberg told them that they are investigating this matter and they will see which users have leaked data. At the same time, according to Cyber ​​News, cyber criminals can take advantage of this data and with its help, users can become victims of fishing. To avoid this, users have been advised to change the password of the account linked to LinkedIn.