18/09/2022
Cyber News reports that an archive of 500 million LinkedIn profiles was posted to a hacking forum, with the hackers disclosing details of 2 million accounts to prove they have the goods. The leaked details were supposedly scraped from the site and include users’ full names, email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information, and other data.
There are a few different ways the information in this breach could be used for nefarious purposes. First, and perhaps most directly, any entity that buys the data from the hacking source could send spam messages to the email addresses and spam calls to phone numbers.
While this might be annoying enough on its own, the collected data could also be used for phishing attacks. These scam attempts would be especially dangerous because consumers’ personal information could be used to make them more believable.
Cyber News notes that hackers could also combine the information they collected from this leak with information from other data breaches to compromise accounts.
It's critical for consumers to consider implementing several standard cybersecurity practices to protect themselves and their online accounts, including checking the trusted sender score of the domain before proceeding:
trustedsenderscore.com
