The BlackCloak team has learned of a recent breach involving the popular social media and networking platform LinkedIn. Over 90% of LinkedIn users had their information compromised as a result of this breach. It's claimed that 700M user records were exposed, which is just shy of their 756M total users.
Who Is Impacted?
Anyone with a LinkedIn account.
What Data Is At Risk?
Email addresses, full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation records, LinkedIn username and profile URL, personal and professional experience/background, genders, and other social media accounts and usernames.
What Is The Risk to Me?
While no passwords were included in the breached information, if you have a LinkedIn account, the data listed above could be leveraged by cyber criminals to conduct social engineering, phishing or smishing attacks in order learn your actual password.
What Should You Do About This?
If you or someone you know has a LinkedIn account, we recommend the following:
Reset your LinkedIn password out of an abundance of caution. If you were using that password, or a variation of the password, on any other online accounts, we advise changing those passwords to something unique and different.
Watch out for email or phone scams, and contact us or forward suspicious emails to our team so we can let you know what to do.
As always, if you have any questions, please let us know by emailing us at ask@BlackCloak.io. We are happy to help!
