Are You A LinkedIn User? Check Your Account Immediately. 500 Million Account Data Is Reportedly Leaked!

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JAKARTA - As many as 500 million LinkedIn user data was reportedly leaked on the internet. The data has even been uploaded and traded freely on hacker forums.

Searching on RaidForums, members of that forum have shared 2 million LinkedIn user data as samples. The user data was sold for about 2 US dollars or about IDR 29.000.

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Of the four files shared contain information about LinkedIn users. The leaked data includes LinkedIn IDs, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, links to LinkedIn profiles, and other social media profile links.

Hackers also claim to have 500 million LinkedIn user databases. The data is offered in an auction in the form of bitcoin currency, as a means of transaction.

Responding to news that its user data was stolen until it was sold, LinkedIn issued a statement saying it had launched an investigation. Furthermore, they also state that the data claimed by the perpetrator is user profile data that can be viewed publicly.

"This does not include LinkedIn data breaches, and no user account privacy data is included in what we can review", it was quoted as saying in a LinkedIn Corporate Communication statement.

To solve the problem of data leakage, users are advised to be careful with suspicious gestures such as connection requests from strangers. In addition, we recommend that users also change their LinkedIn account password, email, or enable two-factor authentication on all their social media accounts.