Security Awareness Training by Abhay Verma

After the massive Facebook Data Leak, here is another data leak, this time we have LinkedIn. A report by CyberNews, an archive containing data of about 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and put on sale on popular hacker forum.  Source: CyberNews Another 2 million records are leaked as a sample proof that make certain the possession of real data. The user’s data contained: LinkedIn IDs Full names Email addresses Phone numbers Gender Links to LinkedIn profiles Links to other social media profiles Workplace information Job Titles, and might be something more… The sample data can be viewed for about $2 worth of forum credits, and the threat actor appears to be selling the much-larger 500 million users database for the price in 4-digit sum ($$$$), in bitcoin. Leaked Sample (Source: CyberNews) Possible Outcomes? Users whose data is leaked might face some phishing attacks which are specifically targeted and could trick them into the fraud. The email-ids & phone n...