It has been revealed today that social media platform LinkedIn is the latest to suffer a website scraping attack at the hands of cyber criminals. Data belonging to over 500 million of its users has been posted online and is reportedly being sold to hackers.
The news comes only days after it was revealed that over half a billion Facebook users had their data posted online following website scraping.
Facebook has been downplaying the incident and has stated in an announcement that the social platform has no plans to notify its users of the data disclosure, as it is based on publicly available information and relates to a flaw that was patched prior to 2019.
The world’s eyes are now on LinkedIn to see how it will respond to the attack and whether it will take the decision to notify customers, even though the information was not hacked from the site but scraped from publicly available sources.
Following the news, security experts have been commenting on the incident:
George Papamargaritis, MSS Director, Obrela Security Industries:
“In the last week we have witnessed two of the world’s leading social platforms suffer data disclosures as a result of website scraping. Both incidents highlight the lengths and time cyber criminals will put into building profiles on internet users to carry out attacks or sell their data.
LinkedIn is still investigating the breach but it will be interesting to see how it responds to the incident and whether it believes users that have been impacted need to be informed.
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