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Personal data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum.
LinkedIn said it s investigating and confirmed that the dataset includes scraped data from its site.
The news comes after personal data from 533 million Facebook users was found to be exposed.
Data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is for sale online, according to a report from Cyber News. A LinkedIn spokesperson confirmed to Insider that there is a dataset of public information that was scraped from the platform. While we re still investigating this issue, the posted dataset appears to include publicly viewable information that was scraped from LinkedIn combined with data aggregated from other websites or companies, a LinkedIn spokesperson told Insider in a statement. Scraping our members data from LinkedIn violates our terms of service and we are constantly work
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Ransomware gangs that lock up companies data demanding payment may cost firms $20 billion this year.
Companies are using cyber insurance to help pay ransoms because cybersecurity has no easy answers.
Gangs, many located in Russia, and using their loot to invest in AI and other tools to be more effective.
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A vicious cycle is fueling ransomware, one of the world s worst cybercrimes, in which criminals seize control of companies computer networks, encrypting their data with secret codes. Companies paralyzed by the attacks paid hackers an average of $312,493 in 2020 – triple the average of the year before. The criminals are reinv
Multiple outlets reported the claims about Zuckerberg s leaked personal information. Data including his name, location, and marriage details, birth date, and Facebook user ID was exposed, The Sun stated.
Insider s Aaron Holmes had previously reported on the leak, which involved the personal information of more than 500 million Facebook users being posted in the forum.
Cyber researcher, Dave Walker, said Zuckerberg, as well as Facebook Inc s co-founder, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskovitz, were among the 533 million users who had personal data posted on the forum. Regarding the #FacebookLeak, of the 533M people in the leak - the irony is that Mark Zuckerberg is regrettably included in the leak as well, Walker tweeted.