Dark net LinkedIn sale looks like the real deal A hacker is attempting to sell 117 million LinkedIn users' emails and passwords on the dark web. The black hat "Peace" claims the data is the fruits of a well publicized LinkedIn breach from 2012. At the time, only around 6.5 million encrypted passwords were posted online. The business-focused social network LinkedIn never …
The problem is people who use the same password for sites like Linkedin, Facebook, etc, and their work, bank accounts, etc
yeah 2FA only works for your linkedin account, but anyone using that email address/password combination on another site should probably go into panic mode and learn a very valuable lesson
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That's OK - I haven't changed the password now ;-)
(@ A. Bee Have an upvote from me too. Thread makes less sense for future readers now as I deleted the duplicate before I saw your post...... Sorry)
No idea how I managed to post twice - might have been using the back button to add a post icon.
Steve
I've done that for years, but I go one step further now. Starting towards the end of last year, that unique domain now has a number of subdomains on it, and the unique email addresses I give out on it are spread between them. If any such email address is leaked, I now only have to update a subset of them - which saves some effort on my part.
Additionally, one of those subdomains is more disposable than the rest: I use that for things I'm even less bothered about needing to remember - where next time I visit the site/shop/whatever, it doesn't matter if I have to use a fresh address.
I've yet to migrate everything from the domain to the subdomains - but once I've reached a tipping point in terms of what addresses have been migrated, I'll disable email for the domain itself.
...about what real use LinkedIn is to most of those 100+ million people.
Aside from being a handy place to post a seriously detailed and long form resume - more than you would ever commit to paper - the only thing that I ever seem to see are "friend" requests from complete strangers, in even stranger places.
LinkedIn, like far too many Internet sites, did itself in by trying to turn a relatively simple service into something large, overly complex, and in which the useful bits are buried under layers of pointless junk.
(I guess the reason why I don't understand the usefulness of LinkedIn is because I foolishly ignored its invitation to give it the keys to my Gmail, Facebook, and MySpace contact lists.
Silly me!)
I'm sure I'm not alone in using linkedin to keep track of business folks and former co workers. Sometimes I may reach out to one after a few years. Not everyone keeps a steady email address.
The other big use case is career opportunities. Though i have to tell recruiters i am not interested constantly I like being in touch with so many people that have expressed interest in hiring me or getting me hired so they can get paid.
About 10 years i worked for a company that was trying to compete with linkedin. I would laugh when i saw my personal network on LinkedIn at the time was more people than my company at the time had in their entire system. Company imploded about 7 years ago.
I almost never participate in the "feed" or whatever it's called the thing where people post things and commment on each other.
I don't use any other social media. I won't touch the linkedin app. Wants too many permissions.
Actually, linkedin has proven to be very useful on numerous occasions over the past years for me. Just shaking that tree of 'people I know with certain skills' has turned up useful and surprising collaborations on both volunteer and professional projects.
I hate all those USA privacy slurping social thingies as much as the next el reg reader. Linkedin is the only one I actually participate in, because despite my aversion to it it has proven time and again to be very helpful :( I managed to replace all the very very cool google cloudy stuff with self-hosted stuff, never got on facebook and "deleted" my twitter account. Yet linkedin is one bad habit I can't kick..
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