Data of 500 million LinkedIn users, including 61 million Indians, leaked, data of 53 crore Facebook users was leaked this week
Now it seems that user data is not secure on any digital platform. This week, where data leakage of more than 53 crore Facebook users was revealed. So now the data of 500 million LinkedIn users has become news. This data is reportedly put up for sale on Hacker Forum. Explain that LinkedIn is a Microsoft company.
According to the report, LinkedIn has been part of a massive data breach that leaked 500 million or 500 million users of critical data on the dark web. It also includes data of 61 lakh Indian users.
Detail leaked like LinkedIn id, email, phone number
The leaked information includes LinkedIn ID, full name, email address, phone number, gender, links to LinkedIn profiles, links to other social media profiles, professional titles, and a lot of other data related to work.
Company bid data not belongs to LinkedIn users
After the data leak case surfaced, LinkedIn said it investigated an alleged set of LinkedIn data posted for sale. This is not LinkedIn’s leaked data. According to the review we have been able to do, the data of the account of any private member of LinkedIn is not included in it.
Data of more than 53 crore Facebook users was leaked
In the same week, data of more than 53 crore Facebook users in 100 more countries around the world was leaked online. Out of this, hackers made phone numbers and private data public of more than 500 million people. Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg’s phone number and personal data were also made public. It also included 6 million Indian users. The leaked data included Facebook ID, name, address, birthday and e-mail address.
Facebook told the data out of date
While clarifying on this matter, Facebook said that all the data leaked is before 2019. It was leaked in 2019. The flaws were rectified in August 2019 to prevent further deterioration.